Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
BHOPAL: Members of the Green Army, a group of students from different colleges planted 800 saplings in the Ragiv Gandhi ProudyougikiVishwavidyalya (RGPV) campus here on Tuesday as a part of AkshayUrjaDiwas celebrations. The event was held to commemorate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The faculty and …
Around 9.09 lakh hectare area has been covered under afforestation in Gujarat during the last 10 years incurring an investment of Rs 2,934.74 crore. This was stated by Union minister of state for environment and forest JayantiNatrajan while replying to a query by RajyaSabha MP from Gujarat DilipPandya. Pandya had …
An investigation carried out in Idukki by a team led by S. Sreekumar, Associate Professor with the Department of Geology and Environmental Science of Christ College, Irinjalakuda, indicates the possibility of fresh landslides being triggered in areas near where they occurred recently. Dr. Sreekumar had earlier been Principal Investigator in …
Around 9.09 lakh hectare area has been covered under afforestation in Gujarat during the last 10 years incurring an investment of Rs 2,934.74 crore. This was stated by Union minister of state for environment and forest Jayanti Natrajan while replying to a query by Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat Dilip …
Gujarat is turning greener, at least in its villages. This was mainly because tree cover along fields is increasing. The recent count by the social forestry department reveals that of the 30.14 crore trees in the state, 61.05% are on farmland. There are 18.40 crore trees on farmland. Apart from …
Tree cover in the district has grown by 13% in the last decade. The number of trees in the district-58.52 lakh in 2003-has increased to 66.41 lakh according to the tree count taken up earlier this year. The district however, like Ahmedabad city, has a relatively low density of 8.3 …
Two citizens groups in Mumbai are perfect examples of the anti-radiation movement. The F-North Ward Citizens’ Forum in Matunga and the Bandra’s Perry Road Residents’ Association are working towards increasing green cover in their respected areas to tackle cell tower radiation. The F-North Ward Citizens’ Forum is chalking out a …
With a forest cover 47.3 per cent of its total geographical area — more than double the national average of 21 per cent — Sikkim is India’s greenest State, official data shows. “The forest cover in the State, based on the interpretation of satellite data, is 3,359 sq km, which …
With the efforts made by the state government during the past several years, 100 sq km area has been brought under forest cover in Punjab. However, in other states, the area under forests has decreased. Stating this at the PWD Rest House here today, Forest Minister of the state Surjit …
Sikkim has become the only state to have increased its forest cover in the past two decades and has launched an ambitious Rs 31 crore project of plantation in additional 1,000 hectares in the next five years to further enhance its green area. The forest cover in the tiny north-eastern …
Pledging to increase the state's green cover from 9% to 15% by 2017, CM Nitish Kumar said here on Wednesday that environmental imbalance is causing havoc, resulting in heavy or less rainfall and fluctuations in weather, leading to great hardships to people. He was addressing a HariyaliSamagam (green convergence) organized …
Force Nepal, a social organisation, inaugurated OTMR (One Tree My Responsibility) project to reduce the effect of environmental degradation from individual level at Nobel Academy in Kathmandu, today. One Tree My Responsibility is a campaign involving schoolchildren from all over the country where a child takes care of a tree …
Rupees 3 crore is being spent in this district during the current financial year on water preservation and afforestation programmes under Mid-Himalaya Watersed Development Project. This was said by Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Forests and Fisheries, Rajesh Dharmani while presiding over a watershed programme of the project at Amarpur, 40 km …
Diversion of 1825.983 ha (1835.983 ha proposed originally) of forest land for Parwan Major Irrigation Project in favour of Water Resource Department, Rajasthan, in Baran and Jhalawar Forest Divisions of Baran and Jhalawar Districts of Rajasthan.
Axis Bank launched a plant-a-sapling initiative under its green banking program recently. In this initiative, the bank planted over 1 lakh saplings on August 1 and 2 at over a thousand locations across the country. The bank also invited its customers to support the initiative. Rajiv Anand, President, Retail Banking, …
State-Wise Releases under Centrally Sponsored Schemes for Protection of Environment referred to in the reply to Parts (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.29 regarding “Protection of Environment” by Shri Premchand (Guddu) due for answer on 05.08.2013.
State forest minister, M S M Anandan who held a review meeting with the forest officials of Madurai and Theni districts on Tuesday urged the forest department to gear up for the massive tree planting drive planned earlier to mark the 65th birthday celebrations of chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The …
AIZAWL : Work on the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project (KMMTP), that aims to link India with Myanmar’s Sittwe port through the Kolodyne river, has been halted, senior state officials said. Senior government officials told The Indian Express that the state’s Public Works Department (PWD) halted work as clearance has not …
ALLAHABAD: With the theme of 'turning the city green' and also to preserve the green cover, the authorities have set a target of planting a total of 2,10,600 saplings across the district. Target for eleven government departments have been fixed in specific areas and district authorities would also be conducting …
The Punjab Forest Department’s scheme to enhance public-private cooperation for plantation lacks impetus as only one private chemical company has so far pumped about Rs 3 million, in addition with Rs 0.9 million for maintenance, in a pilot project running in Changa Manga since 2008. The Punjab Forest Department had …
