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 …
To extend the green cover in and around Udhampur town, the district police , in collaboration with the Forest Department and the Civil Defence Organisation, Udhampur, launched a sapling plantation drive at Government College for Women (GCW) here today. The DIG, Udhampur-Reasi range, Gulzar Singh Slathia, formally inaugurated the drive …
Indu Bhan New Delhi: Lafarge moved nearer to operating its mining lease for limestone from the Meghalaya hills after the Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court the company has deposited Rs 75.06 crore in a corpus to finance compensatory afforestation. The corpus is under a Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management …
BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Higher Education Debiprasad Mishra today criticised the Centre for not releasing adequate funds for compensatory afforestation programme despite huge deposit with the Compensatory Afforestation Management Fund and Planning Authority (CAMPA). Replying to the demand discussion on Forest and Environment Department on behalf of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, …
Bouyed by the success of Tattapani eco task force, additional DG (Territorial Army) Major-General ADS Grewal will launch the eco task force of the 133 Infantry Battalion (Ecological Dogra) at Jalogi tomorrow. The task force has set up a target of planting trees in 250 hectares in catchments of the …
Subhash Chandra N S, July 25, Bangalore: The Indian Institute of Science, which is celebrating its centenary this year is all set to gift Bangaloreans with more green cover. The 100th batch of students, the freshers, who will be admitted during this year will plant about 1,000 saplings of various …
NEW DELHI: A reforestation drive to revive the Jahanpanah City Forest of South Delhi was launched by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken on Sunday. The drive began with Mr. Maken planting a neem sapling in the GK II- Alaknanda part of the forest area. Also present were …
BURDWAN, 21 JULY: The district, affected by rampant air pollution, has stressed the extensive plantation of broad leaf trees across the district, especially in the industrial segment of Asansol
The ambitious exercise to make Margao clean and green got underway at the SGPDA parking lot on Sunday. Even as Chief Minister Digambar Kamat rooted for planting fruit bearing saplings as part of the tree plantation drive, the Margao Municipal Council along with NGOs Rotary Club and Nisarga has identified …
We had World Environment Day in early June and we've just been passing through the annual marking of Vanamahotsava. It is good to have these days and reminders, with the associated action, but some of the rhetoric generated should also be cause for both impatience and reflection. To take one …
Various wings of Shiromani Akali Dal have chalked out a programme to plant five lakh saplings of trees in the next 15 days to check the ecological imbalance that caused calamities like floods and droughts. This was stated on Friday by Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal. Harsimrat initiated the campaign …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan Nod for greening of 23 hectares of land in Aya Nagar NEW DELHI: A -level high powered committee of the Delhi Government has cleared the ambitious project to green 23 hectares of land in Aya Nagar and this site specific proposal is expected to take off soon …
July 16: As part of the state-wide massive plantation programme Vana Mahotsavam launched by the government, the forest department will plant 65,000 saplings in the district on Friday. The forest department, social forestry, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation and local panchayats are taking part in the programme in the district. In Vijayawada …
The students of Presidency School will take a pledge on Wednesday to take a green turn and hence do their bit to preserve planet earth by planting 400 saplings and taking care of them thereafter. This unique
Gangtok, July 12: Setting an example, former Forest and Land Use Minister T Lachungpa today said he has planted around 2,500 saplings on his private land, as part of his individual contribution to the success of the State Green Mission. Claiming that he might be the first person in the …
Pune A group of college students came together on Sunday to do their bit for nature. They collected nearly 50 schoolstudents and got them to plant saplings on a few hills where trees are being cut for construction activities. Akshay Shahane and Nitesh Kekane, students of Fergusson College and Maharashtra …
The State Forest Department will undertake 450 hectares of government forest and communidade land for afforestation, this monsoon. The set target for the year 2010-11 is 450 ha, which includes 150 ha land under Compensatory Afforestation fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) scheme amounting to Rs 50-60 lakh.
Administration has given about 7,000 community certificates to Scheduled Tribes in this hill in recent years TIRUVANNAMALAI: Tribal people of Jawadu hills should grow sandalwood in their lands to gain revenue as well as to contribute to the environment, Tamil Nadu Food Minister E.V. Velu said. Inaugurating two day summer …
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: A massive afforestation drive under Border Area Development Programme (BADP) was launched on Sunday by the district administrations of Patan and Banaskantha in a grand way at Nadabet near the Indo-Pak international border. Thousands of saplings were planted by locals along Banaskantha and Patan stretch …
Sukhna looks beautiful these days, with fresh water shimmering in the sun, but what lies beneath the water? An ecological crisis, unless afforestation of catchment areas, desilting and de-weeding is done, systematically and earnestly. The Tribune campaign recently showed the need for concerted action and while three days of rain, …
