Question

When was the Indian Forest Act passed?
A) In 1869
B) In 1855
C) In 1865
D) In 1860

Answer 1

Hint: The goal was to consolidate and reserve the areas protected by forests or essential wildlife, to monitor the movement and transit of forest products, and to levy levies on timber and other forest production.

Complete answer:
The Imperial Forest Department was set up in 1864 and it helped in formulation Indian Forest Act which was passed in the year 1865.
This act limited the right of Indian communities on forests and authority was transferred to the British government.
The British government was empowered to declare any land covered with trees as a government forest and make rules to manage it according to the act of 1865.
It was amended twice in the year 1878 and 1927 after it was passed in 1865.
The British Administration obtained the power of all wastelands which by definition included timberlands by the Forest Act of 1878.

Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Additional information:
By the Indian Forest Act of 1927, the lives of subordinate people were affected. The punishments and systems given in this Act planned to broaden the state's power over forest just as reducing the status of individuals' privileges to timberland use.

There are mainly three types of forest: -
- Reserved Forests
- Protected Forests
- Village forest

Some post-independence forest initiatives are: -
- Indian Forest Policy, 1952
- Forest Conservation Act, 1980
- National Forest Policy, 1988
- National Forest Policy, 1988
- The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972
- Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

Note:
Section 2(7) of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 has been recently amended which had led to bamboo being seen as timber. Bamboo can grow up to towering heights and is woody, but taxonomically, it’s a grass.