{"id":248757,"date":"2023-06-20T19:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248757"},"modified":"2023-06-20T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:19:52","slug":"national-working-plan-code-2023-released-for-scientific-management-of-forests-and-evolving-new-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-working-plan-code-2023-released-for-scientific-management-of-forests-and-evolving-new-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"National Working Plan Code-2023 released for scientific management of forests and evolving new approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e<\/span> <b>\u201c<\/b><b>National Working Plan Code-2023 released for scientific management of forests and evolving new approaches<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>18th June 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change has released the \u201cNational Working Plan Code-2023\u201d for the scientific management of forests and evolving new approaches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the National Working Plan Code?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Working Plan Code is the main instrument through which the scientific management of Forests is being achieved in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The code was first adopted in 2004 with a subsequent amendment in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key provisions of the National Working Plan Code 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To act as a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guiding principle for State Forest Departments in preparation for the working plan for different forest divisions in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It also deals in detail with the essentials of forest management planning, incorporating the principles of sustainable management of forests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time, the 2023 code has prescribed <\/span><b>state forest departments to engage in continuous data collection <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and its updation in a centralized database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>\u201cIndian Forest Management Standard\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is a part of this code, takes into account the diverse forest ecosystem in our country, while trying to bring in uniformity in management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This standard would facilitate the State Forest Departments to measure the effectiveness of the management practices against prescriptions of Working Plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The <\/span><b>Standards for Sustainable Forest Management <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have also been codified in the Indian Forest Management Standard, based on long-term experiences of scientific forest management in India and in sync with international criteria and indicators.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNational Working Plan Code-2023 released for scientific management of forests and evolving new approaches\u201d published in PIB on 18th June 2023 What is the News? The Ministry of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change has released the \u201cNational Working Plan Code-2023\u201d for the scientific management of forests and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-working-plan-code-2023-released-for-scientific-management-of-forests-and-evolving-new-approaches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Working Plan Code-2023 released for scientific management of forests and evolving new approaches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-248757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}