Status Of JFM in States of India

Efforts have been made to collect information on the status of Joint Forest Management in the different States of the country by soliciting information from the Forest Department and from other sources and agencies concerned with JFM. The collected information is presented in the following paragraphs. The information below has been reproduced from the JFM Update 1998 published by SPWD . Corrections and updates to the statistics of various states have been incorporated since the publication of the above text. The source of these updates have been communications from the State Forest Departments.

 

ANDHRA PRADESH

 A total of 6575 interphases villages, covering an area of 16.32lakh ha, have been identified in the State where JFM can be taken up. Vana Samarakshana Samities (VSSs) have been formed in all these 6575 villages. About 5 lakh hectares of the JFM area has been so far scientifically treated for improving its productivity. Out of 6575 VSS formed, 2667 VSSs are under the AP forestry Project (APFP) funded by the World Bank. The remaining VSSs have been formed outside AP forestry project and are managed with funds from EAS, CSS, AP Hazard Mitigation Project, etc.

The Forest Department has appointed 60 women community volunteers in various forest divisions to take care of the Gender and Equity issues in JFM programmes.

There are more than 200 NGOs associated at grass root level with the implementation of JFM program. District level NGO networks for JFM have been set up in 12 districts.

More than 13 lakh people are involved in the joint management of forests in the State.

(Figures given above are updated figures as given by APFD on 11th November 1999).

BIHAR

The progress of JFM programme in Bihar divisionwise is given below (as on 31 December, 1997)

 

PROGRESS OF JFM IN BIHAR

DIVISION NAME	TOTAL FOREST AREA	PROTECTED FOREST AREA	VFPMC NO.	PFS UNDER JFM AREA
Hazaribagh West Division Hazaribagh East Divison Chatra South Division Chatra North Division Koderma Divison Giridih Division Dhanbad Divison Latehar Division Daltonganj North Division Garwha North Division Garwha South Division Gumla Division Ranchi West Division Lohardaga Ranchi East Division Saranda Division' Kolhan Division Porahat Division Chaibasa North Division Chaibasa South Division Dhalbhum Division Deoghar Division Dumka Division Banka Division Munger Division Jamui Division Sahebganj Division Sahabad Division,Sasaram Gaya Division	169231 179339 101892 93497 88978 142586 28380 130953 134626 78568 124514 127392 218862 - 91924 85654 68932 - 65923 49149 90096 31400 135999 42036 68190 64069 12797 179762 149571	169237 120950 101892 93497 73897 138953 10928 109737 130078 78560 123960 12436 115132 - 64257 3989 10486 15632 53051 49118 40608 31400 103322 39062 42440 35812 12746 178563 149571	77 195 24 16 44 44 36 72 23 91 66 150 45 - 99 9 13 15 43 34 100 124 18 48 9 32 50 149 48	33234 48347 27200 14082 17924 23691 3177 36357 22590 46852 672138 43364 12835 - 23082 3504 602 5140 2314 25342 9628 55628 3233 17985 5812 6960 1718 102254 60200
Total	2754320	2109314	1874	710293

Note : Area statement of Daltonganj south and champaran division has not been given as they fall under Nationsl Parks.

 

 

Gujarat

Name Forest Deptt./Division/NGO	No. of VLOs formed	No. of villages to whom adhikar Patras given	No. villages organisation registered as cooperative	Area alloted for JFM (Ha.)	Details of work (Ha) Afforestation|----|Protection
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Rajpipla (East) Forest Division Forest Department Agakhan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), Ahmedabad	24     5	13     5	7     1 (Soliya)	1221.20     335.00	-     33.00	2362.15     315.00
Rajpipla (West) Forest Division Forest Department Agakhan Rural	110     18	110     15	29     10	7777.13     1167.00	449.46     116.00	7777.13     1167.00
Vyara Forest Divison (F.D.)	70	7	1 (Amali	990.15	2085.0	12290.61
Total	227	148	48	11490.48	2683.46	23911.89
Sabarkantha Forest Division Forest Department Viksat Ahmedabad (NGO)	27 7	10 7	2 5	7989.05 1278.00	- 20.00	7989.05 1213.37
Baria Forest Division Forest Department NN Sadguru Water Deve. Foundation Dahod	33 1	1 1	6 1	- 84.55	- 84.55	530.00 584.15
Godhra Forest Division Forest Department NTGCF Anand	52 57	52 -	4 -	- -	60.00 -	4253.00 -
Chhota Udepur Forest Division NGO	78	19	19	4998.60	-	21863.44
GIR Forest (West Divison) Forest Department AKRSP Ahmedabad	5 1	4 1	2 -	- 12.5	100.00 12.50	130.00 12.50
Total	488	243	87	25853.18	2960.51	60487.40

HARYANA

The total forest area in Haryana in 168000 ha out of which potential JFM area is 80000 ha. Till September 1997, 63000 ha have been covered under JFM programme. A total of 361 VFCs have been formed.

In the Shivaliks 56 Hill Resource Management Societies (in 60 villages) have been registered in Momi-Pinjore and Yamuna Nagar Division. These HRMS protect 16000 ha of forest (total area of forest in these three divisions is 30000 ha).

Under the EEC funded, Rehabilitation of Common lands, Haryana Project, 293 VFCs have been established, which are developing 34000 ha of land.

 

HIMACHAL PRADESH

In Himachal Pradesh 125 village Forest Committees are involved in regeneration of 6005 ha of forest land which are developing 34000 ha of land.

 

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

The Social Forestry Department is the agency involved in the implementation of JFM programme in Jammu and Kashmir. The government resolution on JFM (SRO 61) is currently being reviewed. The review committee will also issue guidelines to strengthen the SRO 671 resolution.

 

JAMMU DIVISION

S.No.	Division	No. of Committee	Area covered (ha)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	Jammu Kathua Ramban Udhampur Doda Poonch Rajouri	174 130 150 101 105 90 105	2400 2010 1200 1600 800 700 1000
	Total	855	9710
Kashmir Division (Approximate)
	Overall	385	4369.5
	Total	1240	14079.5

 

KARNATAKA

In Karnataka the total area covered under JFM is 81350 ha (925 village Forest Committees). It is estimated that in the Western Ghats Project (DFID) alone about 23435 ha of forest land is being protected in 316 villages, and the total area replanted is 10,465 ha.

 

The number of VFCs formed in Karnataka District Wise

S.No.	District	No. of VFCs
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.	Bangalore Kolar Tumkur Belgaum Dharwad Bijapur Mysore Hassan Mandya Dakshina Kannada Kodagu Uttara Kannada Bidar Gulbarga Raichur Bellary Chitradurga Shimoga Chickmaglur	6 2 90 33 88 12 39 2 22 103 65 205 12 116 34 7 19 68 9
	Total	932

 

KERALA

The Government of Kerala has issued JFM orders on 16.1.98. It is envisaged that during the first year the thrust of the programme will be on exploring the potential of developing Joint Forest Management within different socio-economic and forestry contexts. During this period six sites will be selected and studied on a pilot basis. Appropriate models to address forest management problems in State will be developed and reviewed after two years.

 The recent reports (Ministry of Environment and Forests) State that 7 VFCs (6 VFCs and one tribal society) have been formed and are protecting 2000 ha of forest.

 

MADHYA PRADESH

 

In Madhya Pradesh a total of 4376 VFCs and 3932 FPCs are engaged in protecting 3.5 million hectares of forest land.

It is planned to integrate watershed development work along with JFM under Rajiv Gandhi Catchment Area Development Programme, which is implemented by the Rural Development Department of M.P.

 

MAHARASHTRA

In Maharashtra, subsequent to the issue of JFM orders in 1992, JFM was taken up in twenty sites of two circles (Thane and Dhule). During 1996-97 the World Bank aided Maharashtra Forestry Project was initiated and JFM was implemented at sixty sites. It is proposed to cover another 110 villages in the forthcoming year.

 

 

NAGALAND

 

In Nagaland 88 per cent of the forest land is under private ownership. These lands are subject to constant pressure of deforestation (owing to Jhumming etc.) In a bid to halt this process the Government of Nagaland has issued formal JFM orders recently. This therefore brings ina measure of formal commitment both from the Forest Department and the participating land owning community to protect the forests of Nagaland.

 

ORISSA

In Orissa a total number of 2373 formal Van Samrakshan Samiti (VSS) have been formed and these committees are protecting about 2.96 lakh ha of degraded forests ( this is about 25% of the total degraded forests in the State). Further, it is also estimated that around 5000 self-initiated Forest Protection Groups (SIFPGs) are also playing a significant role in protecting and regenerating forests adjoining their habitation. Moreover, it is estimated that about 78000 ha of village woodlot plantation raised under the social forestry project is being managed by 5600 VFCs formed by the Social Forestry Division. One hundred and thirty-seven microplans have been finalised for implementing the programme.

Subsequent to the Government resolution (amendment) in September 1996 to provide tenurial rights to the village community by declaring forests within their boundary as village forests, the State level steering committee set up a working group under the PCCF, to prepare guidelines for implenenting the Government Orders. The following suggestions were made by the group.

• All the forests within the village boundary shall be taken for the purpose of JFM, and for the time being reserved forest will be kept out of the purview of JFM.
• To begin with 5 villages shall be taken in each division on a pilot basis.
• Forest land within the village boundary shall be demarcated by the NGOs with the assistance of forest and revenue officials (Rs. 1000/- per village shall be earmarked for NGOs for survey and demarcation of forest within village boundary).
• These surveyed areas shall be declared as village forests and draft notification shall be submitted by the concerned DFO to the appropriate authority by March 98.
• Thereafter micro plans will be made for the programme.

 

RAJASTHAN

 

In Rajasthan 1640 Village Forest Committee are involved in regeneration of 24400 ha of forest land. Most of the Committees (1025 in number) have been set up under Aravalli Afforestation Project funded by OECF, Japan.

The remaining 614 Village Forest Protection and Management Committees have been formed under Forestry Development Project (OECF, Japan) and they are regenerating 24,333 ha of land.

 

 

TAMILNADU

The JFM order was issued in Tamil Nadu on 8^th August, 1997. The programme is proposed to be implemented in the watershed mode.

Under this programme, the FD proposes to take up watershed interventions with a budget of Rs. 500 crores. Two hundred Village Forest Councils will be formed per year. These VFCs will be formed per year. These VFCs will protect and regenerate approximately 3,50,000 ha of degraded forest area.

Tamil Nadu Inter-Phase Forestry Programme (JFM is reserved forests) was the precursor of the 8^th August, 97 order. Under the SIDA aided programme eight interphase forestry divisions (with 40 ranges) and 17 interphase forestry ranges in 10 social forestry divisons were formed in 1988.

For a detailed note on the current status of JFM in Tamil Nadu , Click Here

 

UTTAR PRADESH

AREAS OF FIRST YEAR JFM VILLAGES

Zone	No. of Villages	Area (ha)
Garhwal Kumaon W.Terai Central Teral East Terai Central Vindhya East Vindhaya West Plains Central plains Eastern Plains	27 20 2 1 1 5 3 5 5 4	8358 7867 100 150 501 493 150 270 350 200
Assisted Natural Regeneration
Zone	Area (ha)	Species
Garhwal Kumaon' Western & Central Central and Eastern	100   1500 300	Oak Sal   Mixed deciduous
Plantation Targets
Zone	Area (ha)	Species
Western plain of Terai Central Terai and Westrn Terai Western Terai & Central Terai	250 100   1500	Eucalyptus Dalbergia Sissoo Tectona grandis

 

WEST BENGAL

In the State of West Bengal the total number of Forest Proection Commitees formed are 3289 and 3,71,790 members are protecting 4493 sqkm of forest land. The number of all women FPCs are 20.

A significant milestone in West Bengal, the pioneer of the JFM programme, is the tangible benefits derived by the members of FPCs. Since 1995 an area of 3023 ha of sal forests has been harvested in the State. In 164 FPC areas, a gross revenue of Rs. 6.09 crores was obtained after an expenditure of Rs. 1.48 crores on extraction. The total one-fourth share from the final harvest distributed to the FPC members is Rs. 1.15 crores.

The following table shows the status of formation of FPCs, area under protection, total number of membership and area of forest land (ha per FPC member.

Division	No. of FPCs	Area (ha) Protected	Total No. of Members	Forest Land (ha)/FPC Member
Baikunthpur Coochbehar Coochbehar S.F. Jalpaiguri Buxa Tiger Reserve Wildlife -II Kurseong Kalimpong Darjeeling Bankura (North) Bankura (South) Panchet S.C,. Midnapore (East) Midnapore (West) Rupnarayan P & S Kharagpur S.F. Purulia Kangsabati S.C. I Kangsabati S.C. II Birbhum Burdwan Durgapur S.F. 24 Parganas (S)	54 26 23 34 21 5 12 24 27 473 495 211 292 511 135 78 160 189 289 133 62 20 15	7,462 8,390 5,158 11,089 25,942 6,199 2,137 11,126 5,122 44,420 40,671 27,210 38,249 56,617 21,638 10,541 25,051 14,918 24,521 9,068 16,168 2,671 34,930	5,536 3,105 1,279 8,991 4,542 NA 829 1,171 1,744 39,184 44,635 23,436 39,668 37,535 16,704 16,161 23,043 16,077 27,171 8,093 15,671 3,151 34,064	1.35 2.70 4.03 1.23 5.71 - 2.58 9.50 2.94 1.13 0.91 1.16 0.96 1.51 1.30 0.65 1.09 0.93 0.90 1.12 1.03 0.85 1.03
Total	3,289	4,49,300	3,71,790	1.21

Information on this page is part of the Forest Information System Project of IIFM.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Chinmaya S. Rathore
Project Team : Dr. S.K.S. Rathore, Seema Jain