Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy

rdf:langString Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy

rdf:langString Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy

rdf:langString Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy

rdf:langString * 1938 as Indian Forest College

rdf:langString * 1987 as IGNFA

rdf:langString Natural Resource Service training institute

rdf:langString Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) is a forestry training institute under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of India, which was originally as Indian Forest College, established in 1938 for training senior forest officers. It is situated in the New Forest campus of Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun. IGNFA is currently functioning as a staff college for the officers of the Indian Forest Service (IFS). The primary mandate of the academy is to impart knowledge and skills to the professional foresters and help them to develop competence for managing the country's forest and wildlife resources on a sustainable basis. In the academy training is provided at different levels of seniority in the Indian Forest Service besides training the new entrants to the service.