The plan of the study is as follows. Next section, i.e., Section 2
explains India's Forest Policies and the evolution of JFM in particular.
Section 3 describes the study area under consideration and documents
the benefits derived thereon from JFM. The data, methodology
and results of an empirical exercise to measure the impact of socioeconomic
factors on existence of forestry are presented in Section 4.
Final section, i.e., Section 5 presents the concluding remarks and some
policy prescriptions.