JAMMU, Mar 10: While nearly 14,359 hectare of Forest land has been grabbed in the State in last over two decades, the districts of Jammu, Rajouri, Poonch in Jammu and Anantnag in Kashmir have topped in the list of Government land grabbing.
The issue was raised in the Upper House of the J&K Legislature today during Question Hour by the Congress legislator, Ravinder Sharma.
Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today asked the concerned departments to take due care of environmental and ecological concerns while settling the cases of forest clearance for development projects.
Charing the 55th Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) meeting here today, the Chief Secretary suggested undertaking surveys by concerned departments of the forest areas which need to be diverted for the purp
Jammu, Mar 7: Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din said that the Government intends to work out a comprehensive rain harvesting plan in near future to address the challenge of conservation of water bodies in the State.
He was replying to a question by Mohammad Yousuf Taing in Legislative Council today.
He said in the beginning, 96 storage tanks have been approved u
RS Pura (Jammu): Even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that the government is working for the betterment of the farming community, farmers of 169 villages in Bishnah and RS Pura tehsils of Jammu district are yet to receive compensation for losses suffered by them due to hailstorm in October.
Although more than five months have passed since the hailstorm damaged more than 50 per cent of
Farmers in the border belt of the Jammu region are a harried lot because yellow rust, a fungal disease, has affected more than 60 per cent of their wheat crop.
Farmers in the RS Pura, Samba, Hiranagar and Kathua areas now fear that they may lose the entire crop, if the Agriculture Department does not take timely action.
Though yellow rust had damaged the crop earlier also, the authorities do
Mule dung menace to become energy source
JAMMU, Feb 10: Though it remained a menace for decades together yet several tonnes of mule dung being littered every day on 13 kilometers track of holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi, is shortly going to become a source of energy generation for the Shrine Board as Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy funded mule dung based bio-gas plant is comi
Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway disrupted due to landslide
Life came to a standstill after a moderate snowfall on the upper reaches and heavy rain across the Jammu region today.
The heavy rainfall in the region resulted in a flash flood.
Jammu, Feb 1: A meeting of the Executive Committee of Channi Himmat Residents Association was held under the chairmanship of its president V.K.Grover in which situation arising out of disruption caused in anti encroachment drive of Green Belt and its restoration launched by the J&K Housing Board and various State Government authorities recently was discussed.
In what could be the testimony of step-motherly treatment with two main water bodies of the Jammu region, only Rs 90 lakh were released for the conservation of Surinsar and Mansar lakes during the past three years as against whooping Rs 120 crore sanctioned for Wullar lake in the Kashmir valley.
Official sources told the EXCELSIOR that while submitting Rs 386 crore project for the conservation
JAMMU, Jan 5: Stressing the need for promoting the technology for harnessing solar energy in the country, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr.
