India's First Forest University to Come Up in which

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• The Telangana legislative assembly approved the University of Forestry (UOF) Act 2022 .
• The University of Forestry (UOF) will be the first of its kind in the country. With only Russia and China having forest universities in the world, globally, this will be the third university of forestry.
• The Government of Telangana has decided to expand Forest College and Research Institute (FCRI) in Hyderabad into a full-fledged university.
• Telangana Government under its flagship programme, ‘Telangana Ku Haritha Haram’ has so far planted 268.83 crore seedlings. Due to consistent efforts of the government over the last eight years, green cover in the state has increased by 7.7% and forest cover by 6.85%, according to India State of Forest (ISFR 2021) by Forest Survey of India.