KBC Offline Quiz (November 15, 2021): Where was the Imperial Forest Research Institute set up in 1906?
Bengaluru
Bastar
Chandigarh
Dehradun
Answer: Dehradun
The Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehra Dun started out as the Forest School in 1878. FRI was founded in 1906 under the name Imperial Forest Research Institute. Later renamed Forest Research Institute and Colleges, the institute has a number of centres scattered across the country that conduct research and train forest officers and rangers. The training and research centres were given independent status of institutes after the country’s forestry research was reorganised and the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) was established in 1988. On the recommendations of the UGC, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, the Forest Research Institute, now one of the institutes under ICFRE, was granted the status of Deemed University in December 1991.
As per its official website, the objectives of the institute are:
“To impart education in such branches of forestry and environment as it may deem fit, to provide for research and for the advancement of and dissemination of knowledge in the forestry and environment, to create consciousness about forest and environment among the people through extension programs and to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary or desirable to further the safeguarding of environment and protection of forest & wildlife.”
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