Aizawl: Officials on Monday maintained that compensation had been provided to the affected people of the 12 MW Serlui B hydel project which is nearing completion even as reports poured in that some families had refused to move out of the affected site alleging non-payment of compensation.
The Barak Basin of northeastern India covers the states of Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. The rich and diversified vegetation of the region is facing perturbation in recent years and large tracts of forest are being converted to non-forest.
Flowering of bamboo is a botanical enigma. The factors responsible for this are still not clearly established. Bamboos flower only once and die after flowering to regenerate from seeds1. The strange phenomenon of simultaneous flowering in bamboo clumps in vast areas is called gregarious flowering and causes ecological havoc. (Correspondence)
The Centre is working on a package to ensure the return and rehabilitation of 5,000 displaced Bru tribal families from Tripura to Mizoram at the earliest.
A high-level team of the Union Home Ministry, led by Secretary (Border Management) Vinay Kumar, visited both the States early this week to work out a special relief package for the refugees thrown out of Mizoram in the nineties.
The severity of underemployment has been high in rural areas. Considering the severity of the rural unemployment problem, various special employment programmes have been introduced by the Government of India to provide employment opportunities through the creation and strengthening of rural infrastructure.
Forests and women are strongly interconnected with each other because women, particularly those living in rural areas or mountain areas, have a deep relationship with the forest ecology because they are responsible for gathering food, fuel, fodder, leaves and water for the family.
Mrs. Hume's Pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae) is a poorly known, but globally threatened bird. It is thinly distributed in the hill tracts of northeastern India, northern and western Myanmar, southwestern China and northern Thailand.
AIZAWL, March 22: Environmentalists in Mizoram have expressed concern that forest fires trigerred by jhum burning are threatening the lives of hundreds of wild creatures.
