The Problems/Challenges in Managing the Indian Forest Service Cadre

Over the years, there has been increasing involvement of the IFS officers in the developmental activities for meeting the basic needs of the rural and the tribal people and accordingly the size of the service has also expanded. For maintaining it as a service of professionally competent, productive and motivated cadre of officers, the various service management aspects need to be handled efficiently, finding appropriate solutions to the prohlems/challenges presently faced by the GoI. Some of the weaknesses of the service will get automatically solved through improvements in cadre management.