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China's anti-desertification drive restores 10 million hectares in five years, targets 6.7 million more by 2030China has restored over 10 million hectares of desertified land and nearly 2 million hectares of rocky desertification during the 14th Five...- Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari voices concern over concretisation of Kolkata, says green cover rules were being ignoredWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has launched a major tree plantation drive. The campaign aims to plant 1.10 crore trees across ...
- Ex-military officers defend Great Nicobar push, reject Rahul Gandhi’s concernsRetired military officials are backing the Great Nicobar Project. They counter allegations of land grabbing and corruption, highlighting it...
- With just a bicycle and seeds in his pocket, he planted 1 crore trees: Telangana’s 'Tree Man' proved how one person can change IndiaWith just a bicycle and a pocket full of seeds, Telangana’s ‘Tree Man’ Daripalli Ramaiah planted over 10 million trees, creating one of the...
- Telangana to use drones to drop seeds for afforestationFifty lakh trees will be planted in about 12,000 hectares of land in forests across the state under the project, an official release said o...
- Government developing satellite mechanism to monitor forestation"We are also making an effort in this direction by developing a mechanism for the minute detailing of the forestation at the (given) geo-co...
- Forest cover in NE states: Parliamentary panel asks environment ministry to arrest declining trend
- Centre may rope in banks to boost forest cover
- States to get money in tranches from CAMPA fund for afforestation; Rules will be ready by DecemberStates will not get fund for compensatory afforestation in one go. Rules, which are being finalised for disbursement of nearly Rs 42,000 cr...
- Lok Sabha passes Bill to unlock over Rs 40,000 crore for increasing forest cover in IndiaThe Lok Sabha on Tuesday unanimously passed the much awaited Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill, 2015 that aims to ensure expeditio...
- Coal India afforesting more than double the land it mines on: Coal secretary Anil SwarupCoal India is afforesting about two and a half times of forest land it conducts mining on so as to minimize impact on land and environment.
- 4,400 hectares of Ganga land freed from encroachment in UP, Centre planting saplingsThe land, scattered along the banks of Ganga in Jansath tehsil of Muzaffarnagar, was being encroached, with land mafia allegedly forging la...
- Forest fund gets Rs 38,000 crore boostIn a move which may give a major boost to the country’s efforts to increase its green cover under a law, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gav...
- Green India Mission converged with MGNREGA to reclaim forestThe government has merged National Mission for a Green India, which aims afforestation at 10 million hectares of land over the next decade,...
- Efforts on to increase India's forest cover: Govt"Green cover is increasing and government's intention is to take it to 33 per cent (of the total land area)," environment and forests minis...
- Efforts on to increase India's forest cover"Green cover is increasing and government's intention is to take it to 33 per cent (of the total land area)," he said during Question Hour.
- Exempt UMPP from compensatory afforestation clause, says power ministryThe ministry has approached the CCI seeking 'central government' status for ultra mega power projects for the purpose of acquiring forestla...
- RPower's Sasan power project got undue favour from MoEF: CAGRPower's Sasan power project received undue favour from the environment ministry that gave forest clearance to the project in violation of ...
- Fund crunch hits government's afforestation drive Green India MissionFunds collected from the diversion of forests is held in the Supreme Court's mandated Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planni...
- Bill soon to create special fund for afforestationIntending to maintain a rational balance between conservation and development, the Centre would soon bring in a bill to create a special au...
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