Question

Dietrich Brandis was the
a. First Postmaster General
b. First Governor of Forest Administration
c. First Inspector General of Forests in India
d. First Supervisor of Forests
e. None of these

Answer 1

Hint: Dietrich Brandis was a German-Britain botanist who worked for the British Imperial Forestry Service when India was colonised. He was born on 31st March in the year 1824.

Complete Step by Step Answer: Dietrich Brandis was a forest development expert. The continuous felling of trees worried the British and therefore the British invited Dietrich to seek his expertise. Mr. Brandis wanted a proper system for the management of forests and training of people in scientific conservation.
Dietrich Brandis had formulated the Indian Forest Service in 1864. Afterwards, he also set up the Indian Forest Act in 1865. Later, he also came up with the idea of Scientific forestry.
Let us study the various options now.
Option a- The First Postmaster General of India is A.M. Campbell when the Madras G.P.O. started functioning from June 1st in 1786. So, this is an incorrect option.
Option b- Though Mr Brandis did help the British with conservation of forests and introducing scientific forestry, he wasn’t the first governor of forest administration. This is a wrong answer.
Option c- The contribution of Mr. Dietrich Brandis towards handling the forests in India made him the first inspector general of forests in India by the British. He served this position for about twenty years. In 1906 he set up the imperial Forest Research Institute in Dehradun. Hence, this is the correct answer.
Option d- The first supervisor of forests was not a position headed by Mr Dietrich Brandis. Therefore, this is also the wrong option.
Option e- None of these is also an incorrect answer because we have option c as the right option.
Hence, option ‘c’ is correct.

Note: Mr. Brandis is also considered as the father of tropical forestry as well as the father of scientific forestry.