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 …
The Khangchendzonga National Park is a part of the eastern Himalaya global biodiversity hotspot and is located in the Sikkim state of India. Increasing livestock populations coupled with the government policy to ban grazing and its selective implementation resulted in conflict. Hence we undertook this multidisciplinary study involving consultations with …
THE development of backward areas has been taken up as a top priority by the present Government. The implementation of the Special Industrial packages for the North Eastern Region, Sikkim, J & K, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh were speeded up. Consequently, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh saw the establishment of 4,622 …
What makes the Northeast region a favourite destination for tourists. Visitors are floored by the untouched natural beauty and the depth of experience of the region. A central government employee who travelled to Sikkim under the scheme said,
Focusing on education, infrastructure and tourism, Sikkim is all set to become a model state for India Blessed with biodiversity and natural beauty, Sikkim, which has the magnificent Mt Kanchenjunga looking over it, is today passing through an era of "democratic profit". The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) government led by …
Chief Minister Pawank Chamling, who has led the march towards prosperity since he took over on December 12, 1994, says the beautiful state of Sikkim will soon be a developed state on the basis of its natural and human resources. He enlists some of the initiatives taken by his government …
The Tashiding HEP located in West Sikkim envisages the utilization of the flow of Rathong Chhu a tributary of Rangit River for the generation of electric power. Based on the findings of the Environmental Impact Assessment study, various Environmental Management Plans viz. Catchment Area Treatment, Biodiversity Conservation & Management, Public …
Gangtok: The fear of spread of bird flu in different areas of Sikkim was allayed as the blood samples of chickens who had died recently at Maaling in North district tested negative in the Animal Disease Diagnostic laboratory in Bhopal, an animal husbandry department official said on Thursday. Animal Husbandry …
Health Ministry Rushes Team Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: The Union health ministry has rushed a three-member team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to Sikkim after it became the third state in the country to report an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu this year. West …
The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is implementing a Centrally-sponsored Scheme on Technology Mission for integrated development of horticulture in North- eastern States (TMNE) including Sikkim since 200-02. The scheme has been extended to J&K;, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during 2003-04, stated Kanti Lal Bhuria, Union Minister of State for …
Sikkim is not self-sufficient in food production due to limited land availability for cultivation and lower level of productivity affected by constraining mountain specificities such as inaccessibility, fragility and marginality. The people are rich in indigenous knowledge on bio-resources and supplemented their food from the wild plants and animals in …
The Khangchendzonga National Park, located in Sikkim is a part of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot. Traditional sheep herding practices in the park based on village consultations and field surveys to understand the population trend, migration pattern, fodder preferences, incomes and benefit sharing, ecological impacts and risk mitigation techniques were …
The non-professional volunteers are commonly used in biodiversity assessment due to lack of experts. The bird identification skills of indigenous Lepcha community have been recognized and the accuracy of data generated by them has been assesed. Bird sampling was done using point count method along the transects in three locations …
