Forest provided an ample scope for the survival of all living being, especially forest play a vital role for the rural people in terms of providing food, shelter, fuel and others means of livelihoods. The paper tries to examine the contribution of forest resources to the livelihoods of Hajong community in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh and 60 households selected randomly from the three villages (Haripur, Madhupur and Srirampur) of Diyun Circle of Changlang district (Arunachal Pradesh). Forest resources is measure based on monetary yardstick (based on current value of market price). In the study area after the analysis of data, it was found that the income generation from the forest resources is second highest after the income generation from the shifting cultivation. It was observed that income generation from the forest product is an important component for the livelihoods of Hajong community with direct generation of forest income is Rs 68545 per household in a year ( Rs= Rupees national currency of India US$1= Rs 81.84) and the rest of the income come from the shifting cultivation. It was also observed that the size of family and number of family members influence the access of forage the forest resources. It means large number of family sized with more people collectively collect the forest product. The study is suitable for the policy maker of rural community development as well as the policy maker for environmental development.