Shimla: Alarmed over the depletion of water sources due to declining snow and rain, the government has decided to focus on water conservation projects under the national rural employment guarantee (NREGA) scheme, particularly in the water stressed areas of the state.
Shimla: The meteorological department will be able to make medium and long-term weather forecast with greater precision with the establishment of an automatic radiation station at its observatory here today.
The influential people who had, over the years, managed to get public taps installed at government expense for their personal use are being finally made to pay the water charges.
Shimla: Groundwater resources in some highly stressed areas are being overexploited even after the enactment of the Himachal Pradesh Groundwater (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Act because of the failure of the government to notify such areas.
As many as 380 sites have been identified throughout the state for scientific disposal of muck and construction debris in accordance with the environment protection act.
Spread over 11 states and comprising 23 sub-basins, the Ganga basin accounts for 50 per cent of the total 40 million hectares of the flood-prone land in the country.
Shimla: Social activists Medha Patkar and Sunderlal Bahuguna are expected to join the Himalaya Bachao Campaign, which would be kicked of in Himachal from Bilaspur district on April 9, where they would join activist groups from all over the state in the
Shimla: If the controversy around the printing of a wrong map in the official diaries was not enough, the forest department has been caught on the wrong foot. A state map with redefined boundaries of wildlife sanctuaries has been published without the approval of the authorised empowered committee appointed for rationalisation of sanctuaries by the Supreme Court and the Survey of India.
Shimla, March 5
Minister for Environment, Science and Technology J.P. Nadda has underlined the need for carrying out a sustained year-long cleanliness campaign to help preserve the fragile hill environment and make the state clean.
