State Profile of Jharkhand

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    Location of Jharkhand in India

    Geographic Area and Land Use

    Source: India State of Forest Report 2017

  • Forest Protection and Landscape Restoration Potential

    Total Area available for restoration: 3.83 MHa






    Carbon Sequestration Potential

    Jharkhand has the potential to sequester between 92.63 to 108.80 million tons (MT) of additional above-ground carbon through the improvement of tree cover. The chart and map represents potential for increase in above-ground carbon sequestration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 20%.

  • Past and Ongoing Initiatives

    The study on past and on-going initiatives found that Jharkhand has nine projects that involves at least seven types of interventions.


    These interventions cover 3,343 hectares and have been implemented by government agencies, the private sector as well civil society organisations.



    Financial Flows

    Between 2011-16, INR 496,722.5 crore was allocated to Jharkhand under different programs and schemes, for improvements in forest and tree cover.


    In 2018, Jharkhand’s share of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund, which was created to compensate the ecosystems services lost as a result of forest land diversion, was INR 5,193.59 crore.

    Tenure and Resource Rights

    13 districts in Jharkhand are fully covered and 3 districts are partially covered under the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act of 1996. Joint Forest Management Committees covering 4,29,796 households are present in 73% of the state. The potential for recognition of Community Forest Resources Rights (CFRs) under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is 1.88 Mha.

    Risks to Improvement in Forest and Tree Cover

    There are four major risks that can adversely impact improvements in forest and tree cover in Jharkhand:


    1. • Between 2011-2017, Jharkhand recorded 3585 incidents of fires.
    2. • Between 2011-2017, Jharkhand diverted nearly 27913.984 hectares of forest land. This is nearly 1.18% of Jharkhand’s total forest area.
    3. •According to the Land Conflict Watch, 11 conflicts between state agencies and communities were reported in Jharkhand in 2015. These conflicts are related to compensatory afforestation (7), and tenure and resource rights (4).
    4. • Biotic pressure including open grazing and the collection of fuelwood.

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