Harnessing heights
Rajnish Jain 54 Founder and CEO of Avani Bio Energy, Uttarakhand Pine push In the foothills of the mountains in Uttarakhand's Kumaon region, Rajnish Jain has found an innovative way to generate electricity.
Kumaon Himalaya
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GMVN head wants rethink on mining policy
The vice chairman of the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Raghunath Singh Negi headed a protest at Gandhi Park against the allegedly partial attitude of the Central Government regarding the permission for mining in the rivers of Uttarakhand. Addressing the protest gathering on Sunday, Negi said,
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Uttaranchal takes up PPP model to provide healthcare
Chandigarh To involve private sector in healthcare, the Uttaranchal government has struck a public-private partnership deal.
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Atal yojana to gift Kumaon own seed development corporation
If everything goes as per plan regarding distribution of cheaper rations under the Atal Khadyann Yojana, Kumaon will soon have a separate Seed Development Corporation on the pattern of the Terai Seed Development Corporation, which is earning `six crore per annum by selling seed to other States. Speaking to The Pioneer, a Secretary said the people currently engage in farming for their own consum
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Estimation of total carbon stockpile and sequestration rates in degraded and non-degraded sites of Oak and Pine forests of Kumaun central Himalaya
<p>Rates at which CO2 is being sequestered in two different forest types of Himalaya was computed. For comparative study degraded and non-degraded sites of pine and oak forests in Kumaun Central Himalaya were selected. The Van Panchayats (VPs) or community forests are managing the non degraded forest sites for centuries.
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Temporal change detection in two watershed areas of Kumaon region and its impact on livelihood of forest fringe communities
Landscape changes were measured in two watersheds of western Himalayas over a period of 17 years using satellite images. Whereas the total forest cover was found to have been altered, there was substantial shift
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Database management system for Khulgad Watershed, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
We report here an attempt to develop a Database Management System (DBMS) of bio-geo-hydrometeorological parameters needs of the stakeholders of local level planning for a representative watershed (viz. the Khulgad in Almora district) of Kumaun, Lesser Himalayan terrain in the Uttarakhand. The Khulgad DBMS is constituted of five Geographic Information System (GIS) modules.
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Five districts in Kumaon reel under severe water crisis
Drinking water scarcity in the region seems to have created a drought like situation. The matter of fact is that as many as 73 areas including 22 urban cities, 31 villages and 20 other colonies in five districts of Kumaon division are reeling under severe water crisis , while as part of contingency measures the concerned department has only 38 tankers to supply water to these affected areas.
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Govt plans to boost wool production
The State Government is going to exchange male sheep of Kumaon and Garhwal regions in order to promote outbreeding among the said species in view of their declining strength and poor production of wool per sheep over the years.
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Development and conservation in three protected areas in East Africa and India: Does tourism lead to a synthesis?
This article concerns itself with two problems in developing countries: human development and biodiversity. Apparently they are conflicting objectives, and more so in the protected areas of the developing
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Comparison of bulk organic matter characteristics in sediments of three Kumaun Himalayan lakes
<p>Three lakes (Nainital, Sattal and Naukuchiatal) in the Kumaun Himalayan region were investigated for total organic carbon and nitrogen, their atomic ratios and isotopic composition in their sediments.