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Forest Survey of India (FSI) is a government organization in India under the union Ministry of Environment and Forests for conducting forest surveys and studies. The organization came into being in June 1981. It is headquartered at Dehradun, Uttarakhand. The objective of the organization is monitoring periodically the changing situation of land and forest resources and present the data for national planning; conservation and management of environmental preservation and implementation of social forestry projects.
Forest Survey of India is the successor of "Preinvestment Survey of Forest Resources" (PISFR), a project initiated in 1965 by the government of India with the sponsorship of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In its report in 1976, the National Commission on Agriculture (NCA) recommended the creation of a National Forest Survey Organization for a regular, periodic and comprehensive forest resources survey of the country, leading to the creation of the FSI.
The objectives of Forest Survey of India are:
To prepare State of Forest Report biennially, providing an assessment of latest forest cover in India and monitoring changes in these.
To conduct an inventory in forest and non-forest areas and develop a database on forest tree resources.
To function as a nodal agency for collection, compilation, storage and dissemination of spatial database on forest resources.
Forest Survey of India recruitment offers great career opportunities for several posts such as Stenographer.
Interested candidates can pursue courses in possessing a speed of 100 W.p.m. in Stenography (English/Hindi) for a great career at Forest Survey of India.
This organization has released 5 recruitment notifications in the last 3 years.