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 …
Imagine travelling along BRTS stretch under a canopy of mangoes & chikooS Paul John TNN Ahmedabad: If you have been dreading the thought of cycling or taking a walk along the BRTS corridor in the sweltering Ahmedabad heat, there may be some relief round the corner. A renewed landscaping plan …
R. Rajaram GREEN COVER: A teak sapling planted in Bharathidasan University campus in Tiruchi. TIRUCHI: Revenue Department has identified over 1,000 hectares of lands in the district to enable Forest Department undertake planting of saplings under the Central Government
Sri Lanka government is planning to plant 2 million young plants to mark this year's Sinhala and Hindu New year dawning tomorrow. Sri Lanka's Co-operative Department has organized this program under the theme of "let's plant today and pick a fruit tomorrow." According to the Co-operative Department the first tree …
CHENNAI: The need for increasing the green cover in the city was stressed by C.K. Sreedharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Tamil Nadu, here on Saturday. Participating in the
KOLLAM: Poet Sugathakumari will inaugurate the Campus Green Project at Member Sree Narayana Pillai Institute of Management and Technology at Sasthamcotta on Wednesday by planting a sapling. The students of the college have undertaken the project as the first phase of converting Mukundapuram into a `green village.
Tree plantation has been better in recent years compared to the past. But equal enthusiasm is not there to stop deforestation. Bangladesh has to stop deforestation to consolidate gains of its afforestation programmes. There is still a long way to go for this country to reach the environmentally safe goal …
BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders joined millions of people in Beijing for voluntary tree planting on Sunday morning. Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang also took part in the activity at a new park in the western …
Ahmedabad : Volunteers of youth groups YuVA Unstoppable and Living Crisis organised a tree plantation drive on Sunday. Over 1,000 saplings were planted by members of YuVA Unstoppable at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic & Science Research and Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) near Thaltej. Around 80 members participated …
A week-long plantation drive was launched at Kashmir University today. The plantation drive is being organised by the NSS and Landscape Development wings of the varsity.
Sustainable forest management is a comprehensive framework that includes all sustainable development aspects and has huge potential in strategies and actions to address climate change. What is required however, are actions which ensure that climate change and sustainable forest management policies and programmes are mutually supportive. Care must be taken …
mauritius Outsourcing agriculture Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a food-importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island nation is growing its food in other African countries where land remains fallow and labour cheap.
Apex court steps in, asks states for afforestation plans THE bill that proposed centralized management of funds, collected in lieu of permission to divert forestland to non-forest uses, was defeated in the Rajya Sabha on February 25. Members of the house objected to the bill saying centralized forest fund management …
2000: Intervention application filed before the SC bench hearing forest case of 1995. It pointed out irregularities in compensatory afforestation. March 2002: MoEF drafts scheme for compensatory afforestation. April 2004: CAMPA notification issued but not implemented May 2006: SC directs setting up ad hoc CAMPA. May 5, 2008: CAMPA Bill, …
Pune Whether he wins or loses, Pune can hope to be a lot more green if Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the Lok Sabha constituency, D S Kulkarni, keeps his word. He has promised a tree for each vote he gets.
R. Rajaram TIRUCHI: The State Government has formulated rules under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 to encourage private owners grow more sandal trees in their lands besides laying down the procedures to be followed for felling and disposal of such trees to the government. The
SC Panel Suggests Relief By Paying Afforestation Dues Mumbai: The Central Empowerment Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court has suggested that people residing on forest land prior to June 22, 2005, should be granted immediate relief on payment of afforestation charges which comes to between Rs 8 lakh and Rs …
Until August 2005, Indira Colony was a veritable slum on the outskirts of Hoshiarpur, Punjab. An unplanned locality that came up in 1985 on the low-lying bed of a seasonal rivulet, it was perennially beset with squalid conditions, potholed streets, overflowing drains and garbage. Three years on, however, the 120-house …
