The study conducted in Dharwad and Belgaum district to know the knowledge about Joint Forest Management among the beneficiaries revealed that majority of beneficiaries revealed  that  had  medium level of knowledge (39.17%) about Joint Forest Management Programme.  Component analysis revealed that objectives of Joint Forest Management Programme with an average score (4.08) ranked first and least knowledge about role of different departments with an  average score (3.02) ranked least.  Majority of the beneficiaries (61.67%) belonged to nuclear family, medium extension contact (55.28%) , high cosmopoliteness (47.50%) and medium level of aspiration (46.39%).