Answer:
The percentage of forest area in India is 24.56%.
The total forest and tree cover is 24.56% of the geographical area of the country. The Total Forest cover is 7,12,249 sq km which is 21.67% of the geographical area of the country. The Tree cover is 2.89% of the geographical area of the country.
Forest Area
The term forest area generally refers to all the geographic areas recorded as forest in government records.
- Recorded forest areas largely comprise Reserved Forests (RF) and Protected Forests (PF), which have been constituted under the provisions of the Indian Forest Act, 1927.
- Besides RFs and PFs, the recorded forest area may include all such areas, which have been recorded as forests in the revenue records or have been constituted so under any State Act or local laws.
