Joint Forest Management Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Joint Forest Management was started in India in 1990.

Following the National Forest Policy of 1988, the Government of India issued its JFM guidelines on 1 June 1990, asking states to involve village communities in protecting and regenerating degraded forests in return for a share of the produce. The Arabari experiment in West Bengal in the 1970s is regarded as its forerunner.

1952 is the year of the first national forest policy, 1980 of the Forest Conservation Act, and 2006 of the Forest Rights Act.

Answer: D

The keyed answer is (a), (b), (c) and (d).

The Lok Vaniki scheme was launched in Madhya Pradesh in 1999, so (c) is correct. Its aim is the scientific management of neglected and degraded forest land held privately, so (b) and (d) are correct. It was later given a legal basis by the state's public forestry law of 2001. Statement (a) matches the idea behind the scheme, handing management back to the people themselves, but the part about associations and elected bodies could not be confirmed in the sources found, which mention individual owners and village bodies.

Option A is incomplete, and options B and C each drop a statement that the sources support. The official key accepts all four.

Answer: C

At least 50% of the members of the JFM General Body should be women.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests' guidelines of February 2000 for strengthening Joint Forest Management required that at least half of the members of the general body of a JFM committee be women, and at least one-third of the members of its executive committee.

33 per cent is the figure for the executive committee and is the main trap. 25 and 21 per cent are not in the guidelines.