Forest Administration and Organisation Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The Madhya Pradesh Forest Development Corporation was established in 1975.

The M.P. Rajya Van Vikas Nigam was set up by the State Government in 1975 as a company to raise and manage commercial plantations, especially teak and bamboo, on degraded forest land and so increase the productivity of the State's forests.

1982, 1984 and 1990 are all later than the Corporation's founding, so they cannot be the year it was established.

Answer: A

ICFRE was granted autonomy in 1991.

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education was created in 1986 under the Ministry of Environment and Forests to bring forestry research under one umbrella, and in 1991 it was made an autonomous body registered as a society.

1986 is the year ICFRE was created, not the year it became autonomous, which makes it the main trap. 1980 and 1988 are the years of the Forest Conservation Act and the National Forest Policy.

Answer: A

The key gives special laws.

Forest laws such as the Indian Forest Act 1927, the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and the Forest Conservation Act 1980 deal with one subject, forests and their produce, and so they are classed as special laws, as against general laws such as the Indian Penal Code that apply to all persons and matters.

International laws are treaties between States, and constitutional laws are the Constitution's provisions. I could not find a source stating the classification in these words, so it rests on this reading and the key.

Answer: A

The father of scientific forestry in India is Sir Dietrich Brandis.

Brandis, a German botanist, began by organising the teak forests of Burma in the 1850s and became the first Inspector General of Forests in India in 1864. He shaped the Indian Forest Act of 1865 and 1878, introduced working plans and systematic management, and helped set up the forest school at Dehradun.

The other names are not associated with founding scientific forestry in India.

Answer: B

The Indian Institute of Forest Management is at Bhopal.

IIFM was set up in 1982 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests at Nehru Nagar, Bhopal, to provide management education and research in forestry, natural resources and environment.

Dehradun hosts the Forest Research Institute and the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Jabalpur the Tropical Forest Research Institute, and Patna has no national forestry institute of this kind.

Answer: C

The National Biodiversity Authority has its head office at Chennai.

The National Biodiversity Authority was set up in 2003 under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, to regulate access to biological resources and associated knowledge and to ensure fair sharing of benefits, in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is a statutory body headquartered in Chennai, and works with State Biodiversity Boards and local Biodiversity Management Committees.

New Delhi houses the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhopal the Indian Institute of Forest Management, and Hyderabad several research institutes, but none of them is the NBA's head office.

Answer: C

The key gives Section 3.

I could not find the text of the Madhya Pradesh Lok Vaniki Adhiniyam, 2001, so the section number is not independently confirmed. The Act is known as the first law in the country to set up small-scale private forest management, which is why it has a management plan provision, but I could not check where it sits.

Nothing I found shows Section 1, 2 or 8 to be the right one, and Sections 1 and 2 are usually the short title and definitions, which makes them unlikely.

Answer: A

The key gives Bamboo as the item not counted as a tree.

I could not find the Act's text, so the Madhya Pradesh definition is not independently confirmed. It is consistent with the national position: the Indian Forest (Amendment) Act of 2017 took bamboo out of the definition of 'tree' in the Indian Forest Act, 1927, and the Centre's reply in Parliament lists Madhya Pradesh among the states that have exempted bamboo from felling and transit permits.

Teak, babul and chironji are ordinary trees, so they cannot be the item that is 'not considered as a tree'.

Answer: A

The first Inspector General of Forests was Dietrich Brandis.

Brandis, a German botanist who had organised the teak forests of Burma, was appointed the first Inspector General of Forests of India in 1864. He laid the foundations of scientific forestry in India, drafted the early forest legislation and helped establish forestry training at Dehradun.

William Schlich succeeded him as Inspector General in 1883, and B. Ribbentrop followed; F. Bailey ran the forest school at Dehradun. None of them was the first.