Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
Sikkim is a small state with big dreams. It has set a target to become a poverty free, illiteracy-free, disease-free, zerounemployment state by 2015. The challenges are tough and the target date is just a few years away. But the state Government is optimistic. Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has been …
Change is inevitable; it is truly the only constant. Often change is hard to detect, particularly in amorphous domains such as governance and development. Be assured though that India is changing, even if at a glacial pace. The Seventh India Today State of the States Report reveals that the gravity …
Out of the 353 new flora and fauna species discovered in Eastern Himalayas between 1998-2008, 19 were found in Sikkim, stated a latest WWF report. The report
Sikkim Government has set up monitoring committees from the State to subdivision levels to protect the rights of the forest dwellers on the jungle resources. Under the system, the state-level monitoring committee under the chairmanship of the chief secretary has been entrusted with the task to lay down norms for …
Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has once again received an invitation from the Governor of California, USA, Arnold Schwarzenegger to attend the 2nd Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles beginning from September 30 this year. The Summit is being co-hosted by Mr Schwarzenegger and other United States Governors and their …
Aspects of life history and morphometry of Günther’s oriental slender snake Trachischium guentheri (Boulenger, 1890) was studied along the Lachen and Lachung valleys of North Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, India during 2003 – 2005. A total of 360 snakes were observed in 1026 man-hours of time constrained visual encounter surveys. Females …
Rs 5.8 crore has been injected by the Centre into nineteen projects for tourism infrastructure development in North Sikkim during 2007-08. The Centre has funded twelve projects as Centrally- sponsored schemes while six projects have been funded under Border Area Development Programme.
: Gangtok, Aug 9: Comptroller and Auditor General of India has criticised Sikkim government for poor management of National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) with Rs 44.43 crore as unspent balance. The retention of huge unspent balance ranging from Rs 1.60 crore in 2005-06 to Rs 44.43 crore in 2007-08 indicated …
A White Paper prepared by an expert agency recommends setting up two nodal bodies - Sikkim Hydro Power Corporation Ltd (SHPC) and Sikkim Transmission and Distribution Corporation Ltd (STDC), to better harness the State
Chairperson of expert committee on hydro-power projects resigns the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) will change members or heads of expert committees if any conflict of interest is perceived in clearing projects, said union minister Jairam Ramesh. Ramesh said two of the eight expert panels would be reconstituted …
The Centre has frozen six mega hydel power projects with a capacity of 1,047 MW proposed in North Sikkim following an adverse report submitted by Centre of Inter-Disciplinary Studies of Mountains and Hill Environment (CISME). The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had taken the CISME report seriously and derailed …
In spite of economic slowdown and limited hospitality infrastructure in the State, around 2.8 lakh tourists visited Sikkim in the first five months this year, nearly 35 per cent more than the last year. According to the State Tourism Department, the arrival of domestic tourists in the State between January …
GANGTOK, July 12: Apparently concerned with the adverse impact of global warming and climate change in Sikkim, the State Government has given additional mandate of climate change issues to the Science and Technology Department, an official release said today. The decision was taken by the State Government at a cabinet …
GANGTOK, July 9: The Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT) - an apolitical forum spearheading agitation against hydel projects in Sikkim - has written to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh for not granting environment clearance to hydel projects located around the
This article analyses tourism in Sikkim, a small Himalayan state of India, in light of the most general kind of tourism process models and tourist influx trends. The tourism trends are studied to map the state of progress and prospects of tourism in the state, and for the general understanding …
Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has said that he will take a leaf out of Switzerland to develop the countryside of the picturesque hill State.
