Sikkim

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has once again received an invitation from the Governor of California, USA, Arnold Schwarzenegger to attend the 2nd Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles beginning from September 30 this year.

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Agreements, California, India, Sikkim

Wildlife

Morphometry and aspects of breeding biology of Trachischium guentheri Boulenger, 1890 (Serpentes: Colubridae) in North Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, India

Aspects of life history and morphometry of Günther’s oriental slender snake Trachischium guentheri (Boulenger, 1890) was studied along the Lachen and Lachung valleys of North Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, India during 2003 – 2005. A total of 360 snakes were observed in 1026 man-hours of time constrained visual encounter surveys. Females were significantly larger (t = 3.19, df = 144, P

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Author(s): Basundhara Chettri, S. Bhupathy, Bhoj Kumar Acharya

Source: Russian Journal of Herpetology

Vol:

16

Issue:

3

pp:

177-182

Tags:

Snakes, Sikkim, North East, Eastern Himalaya, Reptiles, North Sikkim

Habitat And Urbanisation

Tourism projects

Rs 5.8 crore has been injected by the Centre into nineteen projects for tourism infrastructure development in North Sikkim during 2007-08.

The Centre has funded twelve projects as Centrally- sponsored schemes while six projects have been funded under Border Area Development Programme.

Publication Date:

24/08/2009

Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Tags:

Habitat And Urbanisation, Tourism, Sikkim, Gangtok, North Sikkim, Infrastructure Development

Habitat And Urbanisation

Skywalk project proposed in Sikkim

GANGTOK, Aug 10

Publication Date:

11/08/2009

Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Tags:

Ecotourism, Development, Habitat And Urbanisation, Tourism, United States Of America (US), Sikkim

Health

AAG slams Sikkim for poor NRHM management

: Gangtok, Aug 9: Comptroller and Auditor General of India has criticised Sikkim government for poor management of National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) with Rs 44.43 crore as unspent balance.

Publication Date:

10/08/2009

Source: Sentinel (Guwahati)

Tags:

Health, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Sikkim

Environment

Environment ministry in clean-up mode

Chairperson of expert committee on hydro-power projects resigns the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) will change members or heads of expert committees if any conflict of interest is perceived in clearing projects, said union minister Jairam Ramesh. Ramesh said two of the eight expert panels would be reconstituted soon. The two panels clear mining and thermal power

Publication Date:

30/07/2009

Author(s): Arnab Pratim Dutta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Mining, Dams, Hydroelectricity, Thermal Power Plants, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Arunachal, Sikkim

Dams/ Irrigation

6 Sikkim hydel projects put on hold

The Centre has frozen six mega hydel power projects with a capacity of 1,047 MW proposed in North Sikkim following an adverse report submitted by Centre of Inter-Disciplinary Studies of Mountains and Hill Environment (CISME).

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had taken the CISME report seriously and derailed the six proposed hydel power projects in North Sikkim, it is learnt.

Publication Date:

23/07/2009

Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Teesta, Hydroelectricity, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Sikkim, Gangtok

Dams/ Irrigation