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Call for greater community role in forest management
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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April 3
Greater involvement of community in forest management in India could help generate $2 billion income per annum by 2020, the World Bank said today in its new report: `India: Unlocking Opportunities for Forest-Dependent People'.
``With greater community control over forest management, income from forests could rise from an estimated $222 million in 2004 to approximately $2 billion per annum in 2020,'' the report states.
The report indicates that community-based Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme that covers 27 per cent of the national forest area across the country, encompassing 85,000 village communities, offers vast potential for poverty reduction and rural economic growth.
The report draws heavily from background studies in Assam, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh.
``With improved forest productivity and policy reforms for community forestry, many communities could earn up to Rs 10 lakh or more in cash income per year,'' said Mr Grant Milne, Senior Natural Resource Management Specialist, World Bank, and the lead author of the report.
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