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Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy
इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय वन अकादमी
Former name
Indian Forest College
Motto
"अरण्यः ते पृथ्वी स्योनमस्तु"(Sanskrit) (Aranyam Te Prithivi Syo Namastu)
Motto in English
"The Forest is Earth's delight"
TypeForest Service Training Institute
Established
  • 1938 as Indian Forest College
  • 1987 as IGNFA
Parent institution
Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
DirectorSh. Jagmohan Sharma, IFS
Location
Dehradun, Uttarakhand
CampusDehradun
AffiliationsGovernment of India
Websitewww.ignfa.gov.in

Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) is a forest service training institute under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of India, which was originally as Indian Forest College, established in 1938 for training of senior forest officers. It is situated in the New Forest campus of Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun. IGNFA is currently functioning as a staff college for the officers of the Indian Forest Service (IFS).

The primary mandate of the academy is to impart knowledge and skills to the professional foresters and help them to develop competence for managing the country's forest and wildlife resources on a sustainable basis. In the academy training is provided at different levels of seniority in the Indian Forest Service besides training the new entrants to the service.

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