Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
THE Great Indian Desert, Thar, is expanding, swallowing and degrading about 12,000 hectares of productive land every year. An alarmed Rajasthan government recently asked the state pollution control board to suggest how to arrest the land degradation and soil erosion. The board reviewed about 200 research papers on the impact …
Manisha Jha NEW DELHI: With the delay in the Commonwealth Games-related construction projects slowing down their work, the horticulture departments of the city's civic bodies are now racing against time in their efforts to give the Capital a
The Government of India has announced the Greening India Mission (GIM) under the National Climate Change Action Plan. The Mission aims to restore and afforest about 10 mha over the period 2010–2020 under different sub-missions covering moderately dense and open forests, scrub/ grasslands, mangroves, wetlands, croplands and urban areas. Even …
The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has decided to carry out the green drive more smartly. The authority had decided to plant such tress which would not require much water and maintenance. Plants like sheesham (dalbergia sissoo), neem (azadirachta indica) and karanj (pongamia pinnata) would be planted throughout 3,000 km region …
HOPES TO SET NEW WORLD RECORDTIMES NEWS NETWORKPalanpur: Banskantha district is aiming at a world record by planting 11.11 lakh saplings in a single day. On August 30, the last Monday of holy Shravan month, all 12 talukas, taluka panchayats, gram panchayats, religious places, schools, colleges and co-operative organisations in …
Hyderabad, Aug. 9: The state has diverted 30,864.56 hectares of forest land for 458 projects in the past six years. This was revealed at the review meeting held by the minister for forests and environment, Mr P Ramachandra Reddy. Mr Reddy was reviewing the implementation of various forest schemes.Though the …
Warangal, Aug. 8: Warangal Municipal Corporation (WMC) has made proposal to spend a major chunk of the Rs 5 crore grants it is seeking from the 13th Finance Commission as part of WMC
The students and faculty of the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) along with the Department of Environment and Forests on Sunday embarked upon the mission to plant 5,000 rare type of saplings within the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra Campus (GKVK) campus in the City. The programme,
Most rivers and streams in urban India are dead or on the verge of collapse. With a very few and rare exceptions, these once-beautiful water bodied have been encroached upond, sources dried up or converted into sewage drains all over the country.
The Public Consultations Report on Green India Mission, one of the eight missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change. It has been prepared by Centre for Environment Education (CEE) for the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) On May 24, 2010, the Ministry of Environment & Forests released a …
Sukhomajri (Kalka): Even as Punjab and the Chandigarh administration are yet to come out with a concrete plan to save the Sukhna Lake, Haryana today launched a five-year
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: The Capital is all set to get greener with the State Environment Department aggressively starting work on its new city forest at Jaitpur in South-West Delhi. While the State Environment Department had previously announced setting up of several new forests in the Capital, what it …
Himanshu Kaushik, TNN, Jul 28, 2010, 12.26am IST AHMEDABAD: Through the Green Ahmedabad campaign, the city aims to set a new record when over 25,000 volunteers will plant seven lakh saplings in a single day on July 31. Earlier, the city was hoping to break the record set by Khemaru …
Van Mahotsav Bankhandi (Dharamsala), July 26 The state government has planned a major investment in forestry-related activities. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, while presiding over the 61st state-level Van Mahotsav function organised at Bankhandi, 40 km from here, said Rs 123 crore would be invested by the state government in …
