Timeline

1600:

Approximately one-sixth of India’s landmass was under cultivation.
  

1700–1995:

 9.3% of the world’s total area was cleared for industrial use, cultivation of pastures, and fuel wood. 

1850:

The spread of Indian Railways. 

1864:

 The Indian Forest Service was set up by Dietrich Brandis.

1865:

The Indian Forest Act came into being. 
 

1878: 

The Indian Forest Act divided forests into three categories : Reserved, Protected and Village forests.

1906: 

The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun. 

1946:

The length of railway tracks laid down was over 7,65,000 km. 

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Davneet Singh has done his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been teaching from the past 14 years. He provides courses for Maths, Science, Social Science, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science at Teachoo.