The workshop aims at providing a forum for deliberation on various problems relating to forest issues and will capture state-of-the-art of JFM from institutional, technical, research, socio-economic, management and policy dimensions.

It also aims to come out with a set of recommendations to be presented to the State and Central governments for desired policy interventions.

Proponents and practitioners of JFM from all over the country from both government and non-governmental agencies will participate.

A release said the National Forest Policy, 1988, the Ministry of Environment and Forests Guidelines, 1990 and various State governments' orders on JFM has given a fillip to the JFM movement in India, paving way for people's participation in regeneration of degraded forests.

It said 19 states have so far adopted JFM resolutions. There are over 21,000 forest protection committees for more than 2.5 million hectares of degraded forests in India.

According to VIKSAT director Srinivas Mudrakartha, along with regeneration of degraded forests, new problems and issues have been cropping up. Various issues such as recognition and registration of tree growers' cooperative societies or forest protection committees, silvicultural practices, biomass utilisation, NTFP flow and income generation and micro-planning demand immediate attention on priority basis.