SSC
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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50% of total land area
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40% of total land area
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33% of total land area
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25% of total land area
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Detailed explanation-1: –Forests have a significant ecological utility in stabilizing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. The National Forest Policy has proposed that to strengthen the ecological balance there should be 33 % area under the forest. Hence, option ‘c’ is correct.
Detailed explanation-2: -The National Forest Policy 1988 envisages to have a minimum of one-third of the total land area of the country under forest or tree cover.
Detailed explanation-3: -The amount was 30 percent at the beginning of twentieth century. The present forest cover of 20.4 percent is quite small as compared to optimum of 33 percent according to the ‘National Forest Policy’, 1988. It recommends 67 percent forest cover in the hills. Presently, dense forests occur in only 11.78 percent.