Question

Which of the following is/are the objective of the National Forest Policy?

• A. To protect natural beauty of forests
• B. To check on the extensions of deserts
• C. To make effort for ecological balance
• D. All of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is D All of the above

The following are the objectives of National Forest Policy (1952):

(a) The need for evolving a system of balanced and complementary land- use under which each type of land is allotted to that form of use under which it would produce most and deteriorate least;

(b) The need for checking:-

(i) Denudation in mountainous regions, on which depends the perennial water supply of the river system whose basins constitute the fertile core of the country.

(ii) The erosion progressing space along the treeless banks of the great rivers leading to ravine formation, and on vast stretches of undulating wastelands depriving the adjoining fields of their fertility;

(c) The need for establishing tree-lands, wherever possible, for the amelioration of physical and climatic conditions promoting the general well­being of the people;

(d) The need for ensuring progressively increasing supplies of grazing, small wood for agricultural implements, and in particular of firewood to release the cattle dung for manure to step up food production;

(e) The need for sustained supply of timber and other forest produce required for defence, communications and industry.