Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The forest department has planted 16.43 lakh trees and raised 17.46 lakh plants in its nurseries under Compensatory Aforestation Management Planning Authority (CAMPA) in six divisions of Chenab Forest Circle during the period 2010-11 till March 2012, involving a cost of Rs 6.44 crore. For the year 2012-13 the department …
The meeting of the National Board For Wildlife (NBWL), on Wednesday, presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the first ever since its reconstitution two years back, considered several proposals including measures to check wildlife deaths due to linear infrastructure and diversion of CAMPA funds for conservation purposes among others. …
The green cover in Gurgaon, Mahendergarh, Kurukshetra, Karnal and Palwal would be increased with funds from the State Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). Presiding over CAMPA’s Steering Committee meeting, Haryana Chief Secretary P.K. Chaudhery said that plantation in these cities would be in addition to the ongoing …
Itanagar: Arunachal Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has suggested the Environment and Forest Department to encourage livestock farming under eco-development scheme of Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) to distract the people from illegal hunting practices. “Such initiative can divert the attention of the people towards economic sustenance schemes …
PANJIM: Even as forest department is bracing up to clear a backlog of afforesting 2300 hectares of degraded land pending since 2004 under Compensatory Afforestration Fund Management Authority (CAMPA), the non availability of degraded land has created impediment for the officials. Forest department officials said that the state has good …
PANJIM: Government will table the draft mining policy during the forthcoming Goa Legislative Assembly’s monsoon session which commences Thursday, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar disclosed. Briefing Herald, Parrikar said that the process of formulating the draft policy is almost complete by eliciting inputs from various departments linked with the mining industry. …
PANJIM: A ‘Vision Document’ detailing spending of money and priorities under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management Authority (CAMPA), for next ten years, has been finalized by state government, which will decide the way forward for this centrally funded project. The document prepared by the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), a body …
SHILLONG: The State Government has taken exception to the delay by Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Ltd (LUMPL) in handing over the proposed land to allow the Government to start the process of compensatory afforestation. As a penalty for carrying out limestone mining in forest land measuring about 116.589 hectare at …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday approved Rs 184.60-crore Annual Plan of Operations for Compensatory Afforestation Fund Managament and Planning Authority (CAMPA) for the financial year 2012-13. The approval came at a high-level review meeting presided over by chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik at the State Secretariat here. A target …
Reliance Infrastructure has given an assurance to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) that low hanging power lines that had resulted in the electrocution of 99 elephants in Orissa will be improved upon. A meeting to this effect was held last week in New Delhi and was attended by …
The Odisha government has decided to take up plantation in 2 lakh hectares of land in the state in the 2012-13 fiscal with an allocation of Rs 183 crore. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here on Sunday. …
In a bid to increase green cover, Odisha government has set a target to undertake plantation in over two lakh hectare ahead of the monsoon at an expenditure of Rs 183 crore. Compared to plantation undertaken over 1,82 lakh hectare with an expenditure of Rs 160 crore during 2011-12, it …
Shillong: Despite the French cement giant Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Limited (LUMPL) depositing a total amount of Rs 3 crore towards the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA), the State Government is yet to carry out the plantation drive of about 4 lakh saplings in 470 hectares of …
The Uttarakhand Forest and Rural Development Commissioner has directed the Compensatory Afforestation Management & Planning Authority (CAMPA), Uttarakhand chief executive officer to facilitate plantation of fruit trees in forests to mitigate the human-monkey conflict in the State with CAMPA funds. However, talking to The Pioneer, the FRDC Vinita Kumar said …
The government does. It says area under forests has been increasing for the last 13 years. M Rajshekhar finds this is the outcome of statistical jugglery and the use of flawed definitions by India’s forest bureaucracy. The bald truth is India’s forests are in serious decline, both in numbers and …
In a move to take steps towards conservation of environment, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd has decided to chop only those forests which are required to construct reservoirs or power stations. Officials have also decided to undertake compensatory afforestation in the region. After realising its responsibility to the environment and …
The Minister for Forest and Environment Mian Altaf today said that forest smuggling in the State has been curbed to a great extent by strict implementation of relevant laws including PSA. Replying to the debate on demands for grants for the forest and allied departments in Legislative Assembly today Mian …
Consider this: The government’s revenue mop-up stood at Rs 5.2 lakh crore for the first nine months of 2011-12. The target for the entire fiscal was Rs 8.4 lakh crore. Industrial output slowed down to 3.6 per cent during the period. It was 8.3 per cent last year. In December …
Researchers claim India is losing its forests more rapidly than Brazil and Malaysia. They question the findings of the latest State of the Forest Report 2011 which highlights that forest cover has increased by nearly five per cent between 1997 and 2007 and is presently covering nearly 24 per cent …
Environmentalists press for clearer picture of fund disbursals as forest cover shrinks The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) may soon audit the fund deposited for compensatory afforestation, which has a corpus of about Rs 25,000 crore. Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said the CAG could audit the fund if it wanted …
