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Hii sir, I Wants to know the Year of Start Up of the Indian Forest Service Examination?

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Indian Forest Service (IFS) is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India. The other two All India Services being the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS).[3][4][5] It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951 by the Government of India..

Joining And Training For the Service

Officers are recruited via an open competitive examination conducted by the UPSC and then trained for about two years by the Central Government at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy.

Their services are placed under various State cadres and joint cadres, even though they have the mandate to serve both under the State and Central Governments

About the Training

On acceptance to the IFS, new entrants undergo a probationary period (and are referred to as Officer Trainees). Training begins at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, where members of many elite civil services are trained for the period of 15 weeks.

On completion of which they go to the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy at Dehradun, for a more intensive training in a host of subjects important to Forestry, Wildlife Management, Biodiversity, Environment Protection, Climate Change, Forest Policies and Laws, Remote Sensing and GIS, Forest Dwellers and Scheduled Tribes

After completion of their training, the officers are awarded a master's degree in Science (Forestry) of Forest Research Institute.