OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -VII OF 1878. PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL. (Received the assent of the Governor General on the 8th March 1878). An Act to amend the law relating to forests, the transit of forest-produce, and the duty leviable on timber.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1878 Act divided forests into three categories reserved, protected and village forests.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the Forest Act was enacted in 1865, it was amended twice in 1878 and 1927. The British Administration acquired the sovereignty of all wastelands by the forest Act of 1878, which by definition included forests. This Act also enabled the administration to demarcate protected and reserved forests.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous one was the Indian Forest Act of 1878. Both the 1878 act and the 1927 act sought to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce.