Indian Forest Service (IFS) - Government of India

The Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services with other two All India Services being the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS). It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951 by the Government of India. Prior to that, the British had constituted Imperial Forest Service in 1867 which functioned under the Federal Government until Forestry was transferred to the Provincial List by the Government of India Act, 1935, and subsequent recruitment to the Imperial Forest Service were discontinued. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, under the Government of India, is the cadre controlling authority of Indian Forest Service. The main mandate of the service is the implementation of the National Forest Policy which envisages scientific management of forests and to exploit them on a sustained basis for primary timber products, among other things. Since 1935 the management of the forests remaine...