How much was the previously worthless forest was valued in 1983?
Arabari forest range is a forest range in the West Midnapore district of the state West Bengal, India. The forest department discovered that the Sal forests were degraded badly. To revive the Sal forest, in 1972 conservation efforts were begun by a forest officer A.K. Banerjee in an area of 1272 ha. He involved the local villagers living around the forest boundary to revive the badly destroyed forest land. Those villagers involved through a voluntary participation and in return, government provides them employment in silviculture and harvesting operation. Government also allowed the fodder collection and fuel-wood on a nominal payment.
This process of reviving the forest was brought by the formation of joint forest management committees that contains local villagers. With the willing and active participation of the local villager community, in result the Sal forests of the Arabari forest range underwent an appreciable and extraordinary recovery.
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