Salient Feature

1. Every family of the JFM committees will be entitled to receive Nistar forest produces subject to their availability.

2. All the forest committees shall be eligible to get 100% of the forest produces obtained from time to time, from mechanical thinning and cleaning of rehabilitated area and cleaning of bamboo clumps in degraded forests as per prescriptions of micro-plan / working plan, on payment of expenditure incurred on harvesting.

3. Forest products equivalent to 15% value of the amount calculated (of timber /bamboo) by deducting the expenditure incurred on harvesting (of timber /bamboo) from the total value of forest product or cash equivalent to that shall be given to the Forest Protection Committee (FPC).

4. Forest produces equivalent to 30% value, calculated by deducting the expenditure incurred on harvesting (of timber/bamboo) from the total value of timber/bamboo obtained on final felling in plantation/rehabilitation of degraded forests, as equivalent to that value, shall be given to the Village Forest Committee (VFC).

5. An appeal can be made against forest officer's order to the union constituted or in the absence of such union to the territorial conservator within one month from date of passing of such an order.