Indian Forest Service Officer Training

I have given the Indian Forest Service (IFS) Exam and cleared it heard about the Indian Forest Service Officer Training. Will you please tell which academy provides Indian Forest Service Officer Training and what I will learn in this training also provide address of that academy?

[Kiran Chandar]

The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is one of the three All India Services, the other two being the Indian Administrative Service & the Indian Police Service.

IFS was created in the year 1966.

About IFS PROBATIONERS’ TRAINING COURSE

The training course for the IFS Probationers is designed to address these requirements.

Some of the essential elements of the training are as follows:

1. Capacity building by imparting technical knowledge and skills required in forestry sector
2. Enhancing management skills
3. The personality development as a member of Indian Forest Service

The course is designed to be covered in phases as under

1. Foundation Course
2. Professional Phase I
3. Professional Phase II
4. Convocation Phase

Officers of the IFS have to initially attend the common foundation course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussorie.

On completion of which they are trained at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy at Dehradun, with training on:

Forest and wildlife management
Soil conservation
Surveying
Scheduled Tribes and
Handling weapons

Contact:

Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy
Director
Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy
Post Office New Forest,
Dehradun - 248006 (Uttarakhand)
India

Phone +91-135-2757316
Fax +91-135-2757314
E-Mail : director@ignfa.gov.in

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