6. Forests, Wildlife and Environment - Tamil Nadu Government

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Box 6.1.1Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project (TAP) Phase-I(1997-98 to 2004-05) AchievementsDegraded forests and other lands over an area of 4.80 lakh ha. hasbeen restored.1367 Village Forest Councils have been formed.More than 1,75,000 forest dependents and poorer sections havebenefited by alternate employment.About 3891 Self-Help Groups benefiting around 60,000 women wereformed in all programme villages.Community assets like overhead tanks, borewells and hand pumps,community halls, threshing floors, ration shops, libraries, balvadis,etc. have been provided to improve the quality of life in all programmevillages.23454 check dams and 2201 percolation ponds have been constructedfor rain water harvesting which enabled creating a capacity of morethan 800 million cubic feet of water storage.It has also helped inaugmenting agricultural production.609 lakh person days of labour have been generated in the past eightyears. To increase the tree / forest cover outside the reservedforests, 15 Forestry Extension Centres were established in this project.To utilize Information Technology, a Geomatics Centre was establishedat Chennai. Computerization in Forest Department has been done atthe level of Range Offices.Inter-sectoral linkage was given a major thrust in the Project. Districtlevel JFM Committees have been formed in 27 districts and worksworth Rs.60 crore have been implemented in 1115 TAP villages by 22line Departments.249
6.1.3 Eleventh Five Year PlanThe National Forestry Policy, 1988 has envisaged that the forest/ treecovern the country would be brought to 25% by 2007 and to 33% by 2012.The present forest / tree cover in Tamil Nadu is 21%. Though there are manysites in Tamil Nadu, where, potential natural regeneration and restoration ispossible, much of it is under agriculture or taken over by urbanisation andindustrialisation including settlements in the past few years. To bring suchareas under forests and to increase the forest and tree cover remains a bigchallenge. There is need for bringing all available lands like government,institutional, farm lands, private lands to a large extent under tree cover foldby tree farming.ObjectivesTo enhance tree cover outside forests for livelihood security.To ensure environmental and ecological stability of the state.Conservation of biodiversity, wildlife and genetic resource.Conservation and management of coastal ecosystem.Resource management and augmentation of forest protection.Water augmentation through forest conservation and catchment areamanagementTo ensure ecological stability and economic prosperity through tribaldevelopment.Technology support, research, remote sensing, GIS and extensionsfor scientific forest managementTo empower women for sustainable forest management.Human resource management for scientific forestry management.To monitor efficiently the delivery mechanism through Infrastructuredevelopment250
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