The government has finally geared up to fill a gaping hole in its forestry statistics

The 2010 Commonwealth Games are being touted as Delhi's ticket to the list of world-class, ultramodern metropolises. The grand plans that leave no stone unturned

In an effort to reduce the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) pesticides from polluting the atmosphere and harming human lives, India has initiated a National Implementation Plan. Being a signatory to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, a national plan sensitising different stakeholders about the obligations of India as a party to the convention and to develop strategies and action plans for the reduction and elimina tion of the target chemicals. The Stockholm Convention has come into force in India in 2006.

The Ministry of Environment and Forest made the budgetary provisions for North-east States to the tune of Rs. 4647 crore during the last three years. The year wise allocations were Rs. 1388.19 crore, Rs. 1520.14 crore and Rs. 1539.00 crore for the tears 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 respectively. The different Central Schemes were Development of National Parks and Sanctuaries, Biosphere Reserve, Conservation and Management of Mangroves, Coral Reefs and Wetlands, Project Elephant, Project Tiger, National Afforestation Programme, and Gregarious Flowering Muli Bamboo.

Confirming that UNESCO has put Manas and Keoladeo National Parks in

With a view to generate an awareness across a cross section of people living in the rural areas on the need of conservation of Natural Environment and the significance of bio-diversity conservation, the Doulguri Jnan Jyoti Sangha a premier socio cultural organization of Hazarikapara in Sipajhar LAC organized a day long awareness program on April 27 with the active support and cooperation from all sections of villagers.