INDIAN COUNCIL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

INDIAN COUNCIL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Indian Council of Forestry Reserach and Education (ICFRE) was initiated towards the end of the nineteenth century with the advent of scientific forestry in India and the establishment of the Forest School in Dehradun in 1878. It was on June 5, 1906 subsequently that the Imperial Forest Research Institute was founded by the Government of India for taking forward forestry research in the country. In 1986 the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education or ICFRE was formed. On June 1, 1991, the ICFRE was declared an autonomous Council under the then Ministry of Environment and Forests and registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. Its regional research institutes are located at Jodhpur, Dehradun, Shimla, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Ranchi, Bengaluru, Jorhat and Jabalpur, and the centres are at Agartala, Aizawl, Allahabad, Chhindwara and Visakhapatnam. Its circular emblem in yellow and green has a tree sheltering a couple on the left and a book and a microscope on right, below which its motto in Sanskrit ‘वनस्पतय: शांति:’ meaning ‘Serenity from Forest’ is written. These are ensconced in a circular border which carries the name of the institution in Devanagari and English.