NEW DELHI: The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has launched a new scheme for Accelerated Programme of Restoration and Regeneration of Forest Cover.

Announcing this here on Thursday, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said the scheme was announced in the Budget proposals for 2009-10 with an allocation of Rs.500 crore.

Union Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh will visit Goa July-end regarding CRZ issue.
According to information received here, Ramesh will visit Goa as part of his tour to coastal states affected by CRZ regulations.

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The Ministry of Environment and Forests will consider providing subsidies to biodegradable plastic bag manufacturers in light of the ban on plastic bags in Delhi.

If not Iranian, then it's got to be African cheetahs. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is presently working on getting wild Namibian cheetahs to India to repopulate Indian forests with the cheetah, which went extinct from India since 1967. The Namibian plan comes after Iran turned down a request by India for a pair of cheetahs.

The central government is reviewing a multi-crore proposal for the conservation of Kashmir

Pushing Paper Bags Will Only Lead To More Cutting Of Trees, Says Minister
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New Delhi: The government made it clear that it is not in favour of a blanket ban on using plastic bags while it is working on use of biodegradable plastic as colouring elements like dyes are a health hazard and thin bags and material can severely jam up sewage systems.

July 8: Union minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh has said that there is nothing wrong with the use of plastic bags. However, he has qualified it by also stating that it is the use of recycled plastic and coloured plastic which is dangerous.

New Delhi: In what seems an ambitious plan, the government hopes to restore the cheetah, believed to have been extinct in India since the late 1940s, by importing the swiftest of the big cats and eventually releasing it into the wild.