... of Sustainable Development in India in the area of forestry. 'Sustainable Development' is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development 1988:33). State owned forest areas used to be protected and managed solely by the State Forest Departments in India prior to 1990's. Experiments have been made by some individual foresters in India to involve the local people living in and around the forest to check destruction and degradation of forest resources in early 1970's. These individual efforts had yielded positive results and it was found that forest has started regenerating where local people have been involved to protect the forest. Looking into the success, one the State Governments of India, namely West Bengal had issued the first Government Order in the country on Joint Forest Management in the year 1989 whereby ...

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