It was the first forest policy of independent India, which overcomes the shortcomings in the 1894 policy. This policy is formulated on the basis of permanent needs of our country that are as follows:
1. Need for evolving a system of balanced and complementary landuse.
2. Need for checking the denudation in mountain region, soil erosion in riverbanks and invasion of sea sands on coastal tracks and shifting sand dune in deserts.
3. Need for the establishment of tree lands wherever possible.
4. To manage the progressively increasing demands (grazing, wood and firewood).
5. Need for the sustained supply of timber and other forest produces.
6. Need for the realization of the maximum annual revenue in perpetuity.
Main features
1. The forest is to be for the maintenance-of physical conditions of the country.
2. This policy classifies the forest as follows:
a) Protected forests are those forests which are essential for the preservation of physical and climatic conditions of the country.
b) National forests are those forests that are maintained and managed to meet the national needs (defense, communication industry and other purposes),
c) Village forests are those forests which are maintained for providing firewood, small timber and other forest produces to local peoples and grazing for cattle.
d) Tree lands are those areas through which the scope of the ordinary peoples outside the forest is satisfied. These are essential for the amelioration of physical condition of the country.
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