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The Forest Department of BTC has undertaken initiatives for conservation of forest resources in the BTC region by holding several awareness campaigns, seminars, workshops and motivation programmes. The department has engaged a good number of volunteers and NGOs to protect the forests wealth. The Primate Research Centre, NE India, in active collaboration with BTC forest department organized a six-day-long workshop recently at Inspection Bunglow Kachugaon to train up the forest protection volunteers regarding the conservation and safeguarding of flora and fauna of the area.

In a bid to resolve the worsening power crisis in the State, the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has chosen 54 interior villages of Asom including six in Jorhat to be powered by alternative source of energy. In Jorhat district, the Forest Department has began the contract for lighting up six villages

In order to create awareness on environment among the rural public, a programme on "National Environment awareness and Plantation' was held at Hatidhura senior Madrassa, under Tamarhat PS in Gossaigaon subdivision of Kokrajhar district recently.

The district administration has chalked out an elaborate programme in the town for the World Environment Day. However, the town suffers from the fact that there is no scientific garbage disposal system in place.

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A marauding herd of elephants is devouring standing ahu crops, the only means of livelihood for the flood-hit farmers of Majuli, giving the residents of the river island no other option than to witness the devastation in silence. Sources said that the elephants have been wreaking havoc in the saporis (sandbanks) in Phulonibari, Meragar, Salmara, Kathalkhua, Kathamia and Bonoria areas since the last couple of days.