Forests provide multiple benefits to the society, which are both direct and indirect. A study was conducted in Dehradun and Tehri districts to quantify and assess the economic value of various provisioning services which local people derive from the forest to meet their day to day requirement.
The State Bio Technology department director Dr JMS Rana inaugurated a two-day training programme on organic farming at the Navdanya biodiversity conservation farm in Ramgarh on Tuesday.
Addressing the workshop participants, Rana said prosperity of farmers is the basis of public health while adding that farmers are true scientists.
As many as 9.063 lakh Manav Divas under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) have been created for the job card holders, since April in Dehradun district, said a department officers while talking to The Pioneer on Tuesday.
He said that the department has spent `15.11 crore for providing employment to the job card holders under the MNREGA since April in the district
A two-day long industrial training workshop organised jointly by the Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) was inaugurated in the Indian Institute of Petroleum on Thursday.
The chief guest was Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (UCOST) director Dr Rajendra Dobhal.
The State Government has approved the selection of a Delhi based company by the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) for collection and disposal of garbage under the Solid Waste Management (SWM) programme being undertaken at a cost of `24.6 crore provided under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
The Government is approving the selection of the company by the succes
Dehradun: Forest guards and officials of the Uttarakhand Forest Corporation are on a tree-cutting spree in the Lachchiwala reserve forest area for developing chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
The three-day workshop for those involved in goat rearing organised by the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) concluded in Dehradun on Thursday. Local residents engaged in goat rearing participated in the workshop which was coordinator by senior social activist Jaipal Singh Chauhan.
Himani Purohit convened the concluding session of the workshop.
An international conference on Clean Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency on sustainable development will be held in between December 27 to 29 in Dehradun.
The conference will be jointly organised by Uttarakhand Technical University, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur and Shivalik College of Engineering, Dehradun.
DEHRADUN: Following on the media report about the crisis in Food and Civil supply department in Uttarakhand, State Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has convened a meeting with Food and Civil supplies Minister Diwakar Bhatt and its officials on Tuesday.
After the meeting, CM instructed to ascertain the authenticity of the system, which ensures supply upto grass-root level, so that cons
Steps have been initiated to move the Indo-Tibetan Border Police camp and remove other encroachments from the age-old Dehradun-Tanakpur-Nepal wildlife corridor.
