Tribal Women, Afforestation and Sustainability

The documentary is made on the sustainable effort of tribal women in social forestry. The employment generation for the disadvantaged sections of the society, particularly women, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and landless rural labourers inhabiting the forests and adjoining areas is one of the important aspect of the National Afforestation Program. There is ample opportunity for the structured involvement of rural women’s groups under the Programme which provides for plantation and development of degraded forests. Under the current Forest Development Agency structure of planning and fund flow for the National Afforestation Program, the involvement of local women Self-Help Group is encouraged for nursery raising with a view to utilizing the planting material in the afforestation projects.