Forest: Institutional Arrangements

Indian Forest Act, 1927

  • The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British.
  • The most famous one was the Indian Forest Act of 1878. Both the 1878 act and the 1927 one sought to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce.
  • It also defines the procedure to be followed for declaring an area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected Forest or a Village Forest. It defines what is a forest ....
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