Head of Forest Forces

In India, the Head of Forest Force (HoFF) is the highest ranking officer of the Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services with the other two being IAS and IPS, in the Indian States and Union Territories. Each Head of Forest Forces is an IFS officer, and has the rank of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF). The HoFF is the head of the forest department in Indian states and is selected by the Governor, based on the recommendation of the council of ministers led by the Chief Minister, from among the senior most (PCCF) Principal Chief Conservators of Forests in the state. The HoFF is equivalent to the State Police Chief/Head of Police Force (DGP), Chief Secretary and Lieutenant General of army in rank and influence.

List of current HoFF in India Source:Civil List 2015 ifs.nic.in

+Heads of Forest Forces of StatesS. No.StateHeadquartersName of HoFFBatch1Andhra PradeshMangalagiriChiranjiv Choudhary, IFS http://forest.ap.nic.in 19892Arunachal PradeshItanagarOmkar Singh, IFS 19823AssamGuwahatiDarash Mathur, IFS 19804BiharPatnaA. K. Pandey, IFS19865ChhattisgarhRaipurArvind Anil Boaz, IFS 19796GoaPanajiSantosh Kumar, IFS7GujaratGandhinagarDr. Jaipal Singh, IFS19858HaryanaPanchkulaAmrinder Kaur, IFS 19839Himachal PradeshShimlaS. S. Negi, IFSNotification hpforest.nic.in198310JharkhandRanchiAshok Kumar, IFS 199111KarnatakaBengaluruBrijesh Kumar Dikshit, IFS 197912KeralaThiruvananthapuramGanga Singh, IFS198013Madhya PradeshBhopalManoj Kumar Sapra, IFShttps://in.linkedin.com/pub/narendra-kumar/59/1b8/253198114MaharashtraNagpurMrs. Shoumita Biswas, IFS197915ManipurImphalBala Prasad, IFS 198316MeghalayaShillongSunil Kumar, IFS 197917MizoramAizawlJ. L. Singh, IFS 197918NagalandKohimaM. Lokeshwara Rao, IFS198319OdishaBhubaneswarS. S. Srivastava, IFS 198020PunjabMohaliKuldip Kumar, IFSContactus pbforests.gov.in July 2015 198421RajasthanJaipurAnil Kumar Goel, IFS 198322SikkimGangtokThomas Chandy, IFS 198523Tamil NaduChennaiVinod Kumar, IFS 198024TelanganaHyderabadR. Sobha, IFS 198625TripuraAgartalaS. Talukdar, IFS198126Uttar PradeshLucknowPawan Kumar, IFS198327UttarakhandDehradunDr. Samir Sinha, IFS 199028West BengalKolkataNiraj Singhal, IFS1990

+Heads of Forest Forces/ Forest Department Heads of Union TerritoriesS. No.Union TerritoryHeadquartersName of the HoFF/Forest Department HeadBatch1Andaman and Nicobar IslandsPort BlairTarun Coomar, IFS19852ChandigarhChandigarhSantosh Kumar, IFSCitizen Charter Forest The official website of the Chandigarh Administration Retrieved 11 May 202319933Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and DiuDamanDebendra Dalai, IFS19994DelhiNew DelhiTarun Coomar, IFS 19855Jammu and KashmirSrinagar (May–Oct) and Jammu (Nov–Apr)Mohit Gera, IFS19876LadakhLehTBD7LakshadweepKavarattiK. Kar, IFS19998PuducherryPondicherry G. Kumar, IFS1986

See also Indian Forest Service Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Ministry of Environment and Forests Indian Administrative Service (IAS) All India Services Van Vigyan Kendra (Forest Science Centres) Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy Chief Secretary Director General of Police Advocate General

References

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