The forests of India are endowed with rich fauna and flora. This resource has to meet the demand of a population of 950 million people and around 450 million cattle. The forests of the country are, therefore, under tremendous pressure. On the one hand the poor are heavily dependent on the forests for their subsistence needs, on the other, the growing liberalisation, industrialisation and fast spreading economic activities at the national and regional levels are putting pressure on the resource base. Over the years country's forests have suffered serious depletion due to unrelenting pressure from increased demand for fuelwood, fodder, timber, inadequacy of protection and diversion of forest lands to agriculture and pastoral uses etc.
Forest Fires cause wide ranging adverse ecological, economic and social impacts.
In other states precious deciduous forests rich in bio-diversity get largely damaged by forest fires. The forests of North-East region of the country are hotspots of biodiversity. To safeguard these precious forests and their value, it is necessary to have more rigorous protection from fire damage than that has been accorded hitherto. During the Past few Years The normal fire season in India is from the month of February to mid June. The fires were very severe and attracted the attention of whole nation.