About us

The Regional Centre,“National Afforestaion & Eco-Development Board” (NAEB) at Jadavpur University, one of the seven Nodal Centres of the NAEB under the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India. It was initially established as the “Eastern Regional Centre for Wasteland Development Programme” (ERCWDP) in 1989 under the Technology Mission of Government of India in order to strengthen its structural and operational framework of the National Wasteland Development Board (NWDB), in implementing various Afforestation programmes and search for alternatives for sustainable wasteland development.

During the financial year 1992-93, due to certain policy changes at the national level, the ERCWDP was renamed as the NAEB perhaps to lay more emphasis on the objectives of the National Forest Policy, 1988.

Since then the Regional Centre of NAEB, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata has been working on various programmes under the guidelines of the NAEB within its territorial jurisdiction of Bihar, Jharkhand and Sikkim apart from West Bengal, with the broader objectives to facilitate the respective State Forest Departments in planning, execution and monitoring of their different Afforestation and Eco-development activities through its Plan Programmes. Later on in 1996 the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Group of Islands has been included under the jurisdiction of this Regional Centre. Further in these due course of work the centre in association with School of Water resource Engineering is equipped with A Remote Sensing and GIS cell , Soil  and water testing Laboratory.