Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)

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The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry. The Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The ministry portfolio is currently held by Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

The ministry is responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes in the country. The main activities undertaken by the ministry include conservation and survey of the flora of India and fauna of India, forests and other wilderness areas; prevention and control of pollution; afforestation, and land degradation mitigation. It is responsible for the administration of the national parks of India.

One of the three All India Services, The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is under the administration and supervision of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

History

Indira Gandhi's prime-ministership (1966–1977 and 1980–1984) introduced environmental debates into the national political agenda. The 4th Five-Year Plan (1969–74), for example, proclaimed "harmonious development [...] on the basis of a comprehensive appraisal of environmental issues." In 1976 (during the Emergency) Gandhi added Article 48A to the constitution stating that: "The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country." The same decree transferred wildlife and forests from state list to concurrent list of the constitution, thus giving the central government the power to overrule state decisions on that matter. Such political and constitutional changes prepared the groundwork for the creation of a federal Department of Environment in 1980, turned into the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1985.^[1]

Organisation

Indian Forest Service (IFS)

Authorities
- Central Zoo Authority of India, New Delhi
- National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai
- National Ganga River Basin Authority, New Delhi
- National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi

Subordinate offices
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation (Public Sector Undertaking)
- Animal Welfare Board of India , Chennai
- Botanical Survey of India (BSI), Kolkata
- Central Pollution Control Board
- Directorate of Forest Education (DFE), Dehradun
- Forest Survey of India (FSI), Dehradun
- Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun
- National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board
- National Board of Wildlife
- National Institute of Animal Welfare
- National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), New Delhi
- National Zoological Park (NZP), New Delhi
- Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata

Centres of excellence
- Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad
- C. P. R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai
- Centre for Animals and Environment, Bangalore
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Economics, Chennai
- Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore
- Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
- Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystem, Delhi
- Centre for Mining Environment, Dhanbad
- Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Coimbatore
- Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute,^[2] Thiruvananthapuram

Autonomous institutions
- G. B.Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora
- Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
- Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute, Bengaluru
- Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, New Delhi
- Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun

Research institutes under ICFRE

Institute and their locations, sorted alphabetically
Name	Acronym	Established	City	Jurisdiction	Website
Arid Forest Research Institute	AFRI	1988	Jodhpur	Rajasthan, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli	afri.res.in
Forest Research Institute	FRI	1906	Dehradun	Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, U.P., Uttarakhand	fri.icfre.gov.in
Himalayan Forest Research Institute	HFRI	1977	Shimla	Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir	hfri.icfre.gov.in
Institute of Forest Biodiversity	IFB	2012	Hyderabad	Telangana, Maharashtra	frc.icfre.gov.in
Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding	IFGTB	1988	Coimbatore	T.N., Kerala, A & Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Pondicherry	ifgtb.icfre.gov.in#/
Institute of Forest Productivity	IFP	1993	Ranchi	Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim, West Bengal	ifpranchi.co.in
Institute of Wood Science and Technology	IWST	1938	Bangalore	Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Goa	iwst.icfre.gov.in#/
Rain Forest Research Institute	RFRI	1988	Jorhat	Northeast India	rfri.icfre.gov.in
Tropical Forest Research Institute	TFRI	1988	Jabalpur	M.P., Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa	tfri.icfre.gov.in
Advanced Research Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (a unit of RFRI)	ARCBR	2004	Aizawl	Northeast India	www.icfre.org
Centre for Forestry Research and Human Resource Development (satellite centre of TFRI)	CFRHRD	1995	Chhindwara	M.P., Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa	www.icfre.org
Centre for Social Forestry and Eco-Rehabilitation (a centre of ICFRE)	CSFER	1992	Allahabad	Eastern U.P., North Bihar, Vindhya Range	www.icfre.org
Centre for Forest Based Livelihood and Extension	CFLE	2013	Agartala	Tripura	tripurainfo