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 term "sustainable development" seems to have reached a stage of sustainability after having been used for long. Sustainability is a word most suited, perhaps, for describing an ecosystem constituted of biota like plants, animals and microbes living in any area of the earth. But unfortunately, we -- the most …
GREEN TOUCH: Information and Urban Development Minister Parithi Illamvazhuthi planting a sapling at the Koyambedu wholesale market complex on Wednesday.
If the big and largely rich emitters of today were to take mitigation in the immediate future seriously, they could achieve emission reductions without denying the poor in India the prospects of a humane existence, says Arvind Panagariya IHAVE been surprised by the number of reasonable Indians who have come …
Ananth Krishnan Joint expert working group to combat global warming through reforestation BEIJING: India and China have agreed to set up a joint expert working group on the environment, which will explore how the two countries can combat global warming through reforestation. China adds an estimated four million hectares of …
The green is overwhelming at first but then the reality checks. An official at the forest in Kharkhari Jatmal village in Outer Delhi says it takes a sapling at least 15 years to branch out and grow into a tree, and that many do not survive Delhi
Tirupur: Deputy Chief Minister M. K. Stalin inaugurated the Green Tirupur Movement of Isha Foundation by planting a sapling on the Corporation Town Hall premises here on Sunday. The Isha Foundation volunteers with the involvement of different stakeholders in the conservation of environment planted as many as 25,000 saplings of …
43,000 pits dug in rural areas: Dindigul Collector DINDIGUL: Two lakh saplings will be planted in various places in the district shortly. Preliminary work had begun in urban and rural areas, said Collector, M Vallalar. He was presiding over a meeting on planting of trees at villages and in towns …
DISAPPOINTMENT over the manner of disbursing fund under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) continued to dog the central government. Even as 10 states open bank accounts and receive the first tranche
ALAPPUZHA: K C Venugopal MP inaugurated the project of Mannanchery grama panchayat to plant 1,000 coconut saplings at Ponnadu ward as part of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) here on Monday. Panchayat president A M Haneef who presided over the function said that the initiative would be implemented …
The first installment of funds under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) will be disbursed to eight states in the country, including Goa, on Tuesday. Other states that have opened their CAMPA accounts include Uttarakhand, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Sikkim, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, and Assam. …
Sanjay Jog Mumbai: The Centre will hold a comprehensive discussion with states and Union territories to explore various options for the mobilisation of Rs 1,55,000 crore required to add 31 million hectare under forest cover. The options being considered are multi-stake holder partnerships or public private partnership (PPP). Besides, the …
Rs 11,000 crore to go to states for afforestation THE Supreme Court has ordered that Rs 11,000 crore, collected for diversion of forestland for non-forest uses, be released to state governments. States in India have long fought the Centre to recover the money they gave to the compensatory afforestation fund. …
Additional Chief Secretary (Forests) Prashant Mehta said that development of public-private participation model is necessary for improvement of degraded forests in the state. He said that bamboo plantation should be done in large scale. Private institutions can take up the work of plantation of trees in degraded forests. Addressing one-day …
A tree-planting programme to popularise afforestation efforts organised Early beginning: Students planting a sapling at the BLESS Nursery and Primary School, Inungur. KARUR: A tree-planting programme, to popularise afforestation efforts among students and their parents and to highlight the need for preserving the environment was organized by the BLESS Nursery …
Chief Minister PK Dhumal has asked the Forest Department to evaluate forest plantations made in the recent years. Presiding over the 60th van mahotsav on the NIT campus today, he said,
The World Bank-funded Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has started making a positive impact on the quality of life of the people. The Rs 365-crore project has, over the past three years, increased returns from farmland and solved the problem of fuel and fodder to a large extent. According to a …
The top UN environment official has lauded Pakistan's efforts in setting a Guinness World Record for planting over 500,000 trees in one day, part of the South Asian nation's pledge in the global billion tree campaign. In the record-breaking feat, 541,176 young mangrove saplings were planted in 24 hours by …
