Forests

Sikkim's forest cover increases by over 4 pct since 1993: CM Chamling

A plethora of initiatives for preserving biodiversity in Sikkim such as spreading mass awareness and adopting an eco-friendly policy has led to an increase of its forest cover by over four per cent

Publication Date: 
21/11/2018
Tags:
Sikkim, Biodiversity, Forests, Tree
Health

Child health in India: 14 out of 20 states cut spending on key programmes

Despite greater fiscal autonomy and higher tax revenues shared by the Centre with states, 14 of 20 states surveyed cut spending on a key nutrition programme–Supplementary Nutrition Programme or SN

Publication Date: 
30/05/2018
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Nutrition, Child Health, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Karnataka
Climate Change

Building resilience to climate change: MGNREGS and climate-induced droughts in Sikkim

This paper examines how the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) helps households in South Sikkim, India, build resilience to winter drought. It is one in a series of briefings that analyse how the scheme builds the resilience of rural households in different states to different climate shocks.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2017
Nanki Kaur, Dave Steinbach, Arun Agrawal, Celie Manuel, Sushil Saigal, Anand Panjiyar, Aloke Barnwal, Clare Shakya, Andrew Norton
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Tags:
Climate Change, Droughts, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Sikkim, Poverty
Forests

Compensatory Afforestation

Compensatory afforestation is a dubious and controversial environmental “offset” that is adding to environmental damage instead of mitigating or compensating it. Compensatory afforestation may actually be accelerating the invasion of India’s forests by big corporations, in collusion with a permissive state, by legitimising the destruction of forests, greenwashing the land grabs, and encroaching on common property resources and community-held lands.

Publication Date: 
23/09/2017
Soumitra Ghosh
Economic and Political Weekly
52
38
67-75
Tags:
Deforestation, Land Use, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Mining, Dams, Compensatory Afforestation, Polavaram, Lower Subansiri, Durgapur, Sikkim, Arunachal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Forest Clearance, Environment Clearance (EC)
Climate Change

Climate change looms over Himalayas

Pheasants and Finches - two of the flagship Himalayan species seem to be reeling under the threat of climate change, states the preliminary findings of survey by Bombay Natural History Society (BNH

Publication Date: 
07/09/2017
Times Of India (Pune)
Tags:
Climate Change, Himalaya, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Climate Mitigation, West Bengal, Sikkim
Biodiversity

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding declaration of protected areas as Eco-sensitive Zones, Sikkim, 21/08/2017

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Tseten Lepcha Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/08/2017 regarding the notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change dated 27.8.2014 declaring eight protected areas as Eco-sensitive Zones in in the State of Sikkim.

Judgement Date: 
21/08/2017
Tags:
National Parks, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Sikkim, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Biodiversity
Health

Centre starving health sector of funds, says House panel

The Parliamentary standing committee on health has strongly criticised the government for starving the health sector of much-needed funds.

Publication Date: 
21/03/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health, Budget, Health Care, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim, Economy
Agriculture

Sikkim's organic revolution at risk as local consumers fail to buy into project

With 66,000 farmers’ livelihoods at stake, concern is growing over the Indian state’s organic farming experiment, with locals reluctant to pay higher prices.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2017
Guardian
Tags:
Sikkim, Organic Farming, Agriculture, Farmers
Science And Technology

Bacterial and archeal community composition in hot springs from Indo-Burma region, North-east India

Bacterial and archaeal diversity of two alkaline Indian hot springs, Jakrem (Meghalaya) and Yumthang (Sikkim), were studied. Thirteen major bacterial phyla were identified of which Firmicutes, Chloroflexi and Thermi were dominant in Jakrem and Proteobacteria in Yumthang. The dominant genera were Clostridium, Chloroflexus and Meiothermus at Jakrem (water temperature 46 °C, pH 9) and Thiobacillus, Sulfuritalea at Yumthang (water temperature 39 °C, pH 8) hot springs.

Publication Date: 
10/11/2016
Amrita Kumari Panda, Satpal Singh Bisht, Surajit De Mandal & et al
AMB Express
6
1-12
Tags:
Freshwater Ecosystems, Micro Organisms, North East, India, Sikkim, Meghalaya
Natural Disasters

Quake hits Mizoram and adjoining areas

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit the mountainous northeastern state of Mizoram and adjoining areas on Wednesday. There was no report of any damage due to the tremor yet, officials said.

Publication Date: 
27/10/2016
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Mizoram, Earthquakes, North East, Sikkim, Himalaya, Natural Disasters

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