An Analysis of People’s Participation in different Stages of Joint Forest Management Programme in Himachal Pradesh

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
People Participation ◽  
Maintenance Stage ◽  
Implementation Stage

Joint Forest Management (JFM) is an effective strategy to involve people in the regeneration and management of forests. Forest Rights Act, 2006 provided an excellent framework to manage community forest resources with the help of gram sabha and link it to other developmental schemes. It was observed that forestry programmes failed to draw people participation. The present study was an attempt to investigate the level of people participation in JFM in Himachal Pradesh. There was a moderate level of participation of cent at an overall level. People participation was found to be highest in the maintenance stage (61.53 percent), followed by the planning stage (60.29 percent) and the implementation stage (51.32 percent). A focus on income and work activity with incremental profits is needed to increase people's participation in JFM operations. The involvement of formal and informal organisations can be extended to increase awareness of the importance of such programmes.

scholarly journals People’s participation in joint forest management in higher hills of Himachal Pradesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1129-1134
Author(s):  
Chandresh Guleria ◽  
Manoj Kumar Vaidya ◽  
K. Kireeti ◽  
Chaman Negi
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
General Category ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Forest Division ◽  
Participation Index ◽  
Cottage Industries

Joint Forest Management (JFM) is an effort which involved people to participate for the protection, conservation and rehabilitation of forests whilst safeguarding the rights of forest dwellers. Women and other marginalized sections of the community need to be empowered to ensure their participation in JFM (Aggarwal and Chauhan, 2015). Such programmes while ensuring the conservation of flora and fauna, also provided stability for the agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, and local cottage industries and thus, help in all round economic development (Bhatia, 2000). The present study analysed the people’s participation in different stages of JFM programmes in the higher hills of Himachal Pradesh (Sundernagar and Kullu forest division). The results showed that people of age group 40-60 years participated most in the JFM programme. The participation of the general category people was found highest followed by scheduled caste, other backward class and scheduled tribe. The literacy rate of the respondents was found to be 98.51 percent while the literacy index was found to be 2.51 representing level of education in between middle class and higher secondary. In both the regions participation of people was found maximum during maintenance stage followed by planning stage and implementation stage. The overall participation index was found to be 61.91 per cent. The capacity building through training and awareness can help in safeguarding livelihood and conservation efforts of JFM.

scholarly journals Factors affecting people’s participation in joint forest management programmes in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, India

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1530-1533
Author(s):  
Chaman Lal ◽  
Chandresh Guleria ◽  
R.S. Prasher ◽  
Ravinder Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Planning Implementation ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Similar Kind

The present investigation examined the various factors affecting people's participation in the planning, implementation and maintenance of JFM programmes in the tribal distrct (Kinnaur) of Himachal Pradesh. In total, 10 factors were identified that influence people’s participation in Joint Forest Management (JFM) activities in the study area, which were independently affecting in all of three development blocks. District as a whole factors affecting in decreasing order were Lack of awareness about participatory forest management (66%), lack of co-ordination with forestry officials (64%), non availability of routine funds (56%), lack of training and visit programme (56%), clash between agriculture and JFM activities (54%), lack of emphasis on quick economic activities (49%), improper usufruct sharing (43%) etc. were some of major factors that influenced people’s participation. Policy and development emphasis on these factors, particularly taking into consideration the geography and need based activity in the various development blocks will increase the people’s participation in similar kind of projects.

scholarly journals Community Involvement in Forest Management: A Social Analysis of Joint Forest Management in Maharashtra, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Sonowal
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Forest Resource Management

ABSTRACT With the formulation of Joint Forest Management Programme in India, the involvement of communities in forest management has been recognised as a sustainable way of forest resource management. Nevertheless, research conducted on the experiences of Joint Forest Management reveals that there are lots of inherent factors that determine the success or failure of such forestry programmes. The present article is the outcome of a research project conducted in the Thane and Raigad districts of Maharashtra state among some Joint Forest Management Committees. Using primary and secondary sources of information, the study investigates the characteristics of the resources, the characteristic of community, the characteristics of rules, the context of the socio-economic environment and the extent of participation of JFMC members in forest management activities and hereby tries to find out the reasons for success and failure of forest management programmes.

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