Fire has been a part of India's landscape since time immemorial and can play a vital role in healthy forests, recycling … to burning on an annual or semi-annual basis. As these fires are no longer beneficial to forest health, India is … increasingly wrestling with how to improve the prevention and management of unwanted forest fires. India is not alone in facing …

, together spanning a range of conditions in rural India: Maharashtra and Orissa. The secondary objectives of the study were to …