
The traditional symbiotic relationships between tribal community and forest have been revealed from thousands of years. These two are ecologically and economically inseparable and co-existed. India (specifically north eastern region) has a huge population living close to the forest with their livelihood critically linked to the forest ecosystem. People living in their forest fringe villages depend upon forest for a variety of goods and services. This paper tries to analyze statistically the recorded forest area, change of forest cover and the related change matrix over the 8 north east states. It also pin-out the comparative study about the forest and its resources among the north eastern states.