Admissions Open in Eastern Forest Rangers College

The deliberate advancement of ranger service instruction and preparing in India is one of the most established on the planet. The arrangement of Dr. Dietrich Brandis, as the primary examiner General of Forests of India saw unfaltering improvement towards logical administration of woods. Dr. Brandis was instrumental in recognizing the requirement for qualified and all around prepared work force for Forestry Management and organization in the nation and made strides for their enrollment and preparing. By 1870, the establishment of a formal backwoods office was very much laid and a normal woods administration appeared. 

The officials of the Imperial Forest Service were prepared in France, Germany and United Kingdom from 1867 till 1926. In India, this preparation started in 1878. A Central Forest School was built up at Dehradun by the then North-Western Province for preparing of Forest Range Officers (FROs). The Central Forest School was later taken over by the Government during 1884. A proposition was made during 1891 for beginning a Provincial Forest Service (PFS) understanding the expanding request of prepared backwoods staff. After its foundation in 1906, the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun began one year course enrollment to PFS. Consequently in 1912, a different two years' course was begun for preparing science graduates for arrangement to the PFS. Devoted preparing for Imperial Forest Service started at Indian Forest College (IFC), Dehradun in 1926 and the course for PFS was nullified. 

As backwoods organization moved toward becoming more clear and more grounded, the unit of Forest Range Officers (FROs) was advanced out of the need a connection between IFS officials at the higher authoritative level and the lower subordinate field staff. Nine Forest Rangers Colleges (FRCs) were built up from 1912 to 1982 to fulfill the intense need for woodland officers. The framework of FROs rose as one of the most significant official functionaries in the State Forests Department (SFDs). Gradually the Central Government run Ranger universities were step by step shut and gave over to the individual State Governments where they were situated, aside from the Eastern Forest Rangers College (EFRC) at Kurseong which is still with the Central Government. 

The school is housed in a tremendous frontier period building which was before a property of St. Mary's Seminary under the Catholic Mission of West Bengal (Society of Jesus). The structure and home was obtained by the Government of India in 1974. Change of the property for the President of India has been affected after deed of amendment vide Memo No. 45/BLLRO dated 03.04.1992 of the Block and Land Reform Officer, Kurseong, Government of West Bengal. The territory under belonging is 30.57 sections of land. The impressive legacy working in the bequest has a long history.