(Info) IFoS Training and Rank Structure

IFS Training and Rank Structure

Selected candidates are sent for foundation training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussourie. This is followed by Forest Service-specific orientation at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy at Dehradun, with training on forest and wildlife management, soil conservation, surveying, Scheduled Tribes, and handling weapons.

After completing the academies, candidates go through a year of on-the-job field training in the state to which he or she is assigned.

There is a probationary period four years. On completion of this, officers are appointed to the Senior Time Scale and are entitled to be posted as the Deputy Conservators of Forests or Divisional Forest Officers in charge of districts/forest divisions.

Ranks of the Forest Service are as follows:

1. Assistant Conservator of Forests

2. Deputy Conservator of Forests

3. Conservator of Forests (CFs)

4. Chief Conservator of Forests

5. Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests

6. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCFs)

7. Director General of Forests - highest post, selected from amongst the senior-most PCCFs of states.

Courtesy: wikipedia.org