Important Report/Studies/Findings 2022

 Important Reports/Studies/Findings 2022

& Sustainable Development Report 2021: Finland stands at the 1st place, while, India at 120th(worsening by 3 places, last time, it was 117 the).

& India Forest Survey Report 2021:

·       Such a report is published once in 2 years, by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradoon. Forest Survey of India (FSI) is an organization under the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India Its principal mandate is to conduct surveys and assessments of forest resources in the country. ​

            It started as an organization called Pre- Investment Survey of Forest Resources (PISFR) in 1965 as FAO/UNDP/GOI Project. The changing information needs to be resulted in enlarging the scope of activities of PISFR and it was re-organized as Forest Survey of India in 1981. It was started in 1987. Thus, the present report (the year 2021) is the 17^th edition.

·       Total area under trees or forest cover – 80.9 million hectares (i. e. 24.62 % of the total area of the nation.)

·       Total Geographical area under forests: 7,13, 789 km square (21.71 % of total).

·       Total Geographical area under trees: 95,748 km square (2.91% of total).

·       Increase in the forest cover: 1540 km Square.

·       Increase in the area that is tree-cover: 721 km Square.

·       Thus, the total increase in the cover: 2261 km Square.

·   States with the maximum area under forest: 1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Arunachal Pradesh.

·       States with the minimum area under forest: Haryana 1590 km Square.

·       States with the maximum % area under forest: 1) Mizoram 2) Arunachal Pradesh

•                States with the minimum % area under forest:  Haryana (3.63 %).
•                States with the maximum increase in the area under forest cover: 

                  1)Andhra Pradesh 2) Telangana.