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Assertion (A): Forest cover in India to be increased from 22% to 33% level of the total land.

Reason (R): This will provide enough fuel wood to the rural poor.

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Both A and R are true and R is not a correct explanation of A

A is true but R is false

A is false but R is true

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Explanation:

1. India’s National Forest Policy 1988 aims at maintaining 33 per cent of the geographical area under forest and tree cover. As per India State of Forest Report 2013, the total forest cover in the country is 697,898 square kilometers which is 21.23 percent of the total geographical area of the country.

2. One of the provision of National Forest policy is

3.4 Provision of sufficient fodder, fuel and pasture, specially in areas adjoining forest, is necessary in order to prevent depletion of forests beyond the sustainable limit. Since fuelwood continues to be the predominant source of energy in rural areas, the programme of afforestation should be intensified with special emphasis on augmenting fuelwood production to meet the requirement of the rural people.