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Mudit Kumar Singh

Mudit Kumar Singh

Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Head of Forest Force, Chhattisgarh (Indian Forest Service, 1984 batch); currently Expert Advisor at Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.

Aug 8, 2026

33:03
What do you do?
33:04
See, earlier a forest officer would go in the field and stay there for even a week, 10 days.
33:11
And then return to headquarters for a day or two.
33:14
Now it is reverse.
33:16
Now paperwork has increased a lot.
33:18
This is, we have to accept it.
33:20
There are so many meetings.

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53:45
So, now, if you have been to so many countries, what is the difference between the forest in those countries and the forest in our country?
0:00
People are very passionate about wildlife tourism.
0:02
They like to see the tiger in the wild.
0:03
The children like to see.
0:05
That is OK.
0:05
But unfortunately, people are not very passionate about the forests.
0:09
Once you have a passion for it, once you have love for it, you will definitely do something to conserve it.
0:55
What was your experience of this dilemma?
0:58
You see from the time we got independence our population was 35 crore something and today we are 150 plus.

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