DEHRADUN: Dr
Renu Singh
has been appointed by
MoEF
as the next director of Forest Research Institute (
FRI
) in Dehradun. She will be the institute's second woman director.
An officer of Indian Forest Service of 1990 batch of
Madhya Pradesh
cadre, Singh joined as FRI director after AS Rawat, director general, ICFRE, handed over his additional charge of director FRI to her on Monday.
Before joining FRI as director, Singh was additional managing director of
Madhya Pradesh Forest Development Corporation
in Bhopal.
As a field practitioner, she has vast experience on the implementation of joint forest management practices involving rural communities and addressing their livelihood-related needs.
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