The Forest Department initiated the Resource
Information Management System (RIMS) during 1984-85
under the auspices of IDA funded Second Forestry Project.
The main objective of the RIMS was to produce reports and
maps relevant to all aspects of the management plan,
silvicultural prescriptions and to provide information on
present and predicted yields from relevant operations. This
was designed as an aid to intensive forest resource
management through management plans and perspective
planning in forestry. The FD has installed GIS set up in 1995
and executed Forest Resource Management Project with the
assistance of World Bank. The main activities include forest
plantation planning as well as to provide professional and
technical services in the field of GIS and associated
technologies. The department prepared forest plantation maps
for specific site matching.