What is the scope of forestry in the country?
With our National Forest Policy stressing the need to bring about 66 per cent area in the hills and 33 per cent in the plains under forest cover, the forestry sector provides a vast job opportunities for the youth. This includes industries based on forest products like pharmaceutical firms using medicinal plants, industrial units manufacturing fertilisers, fungicides, pesticides, various units manufacturing plant oil like turpentine, eucalyptus, etc., After getting trained in forestry, the youth also find ready employment in the state Forest Department, where as much as 70 per cent quota is reserved for them. The various forestry institutes also offer jobs as faculty members. Any new courses that the university is planning? The university is contemplating special modules for a short, postgraduate in-service course in watershed development. Its pros and cons were being weighed. With a view to making the students competitive at the national level, the course content has been designed acc
