The Centre on Monday informed Parliament that a survey will be conducted by the Survey of India by the end of July to demarcate the mining lease areas of five mines in Andhra Pradesh.
BHUBANESWAR: The coastal zone of Paradip is undergoing rapid geographical changes. The shoreline and the beach area in the zone have sustained major shifts in characteristics in the past three decades.
June 22: The Union ministry of environment and forests has stepped up pressure on the AP government to expedite the inspection of its borders with Karnataka by taking the support of the Survey of India.
The Karnataka High Court on Monday pulled up the Forest department for delay in despatching the letter to Survey of India to be part of the joint survey of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh borders.
A team of Survey of India experts is expected to arrive in the State next month to carry out a topographical survey of Altinho hill as a part of project to prepare a master drainage plan.
Pune A month after 27 trees were illegally cut by the Survey of India (SOI) in its Maharashtra and Goa Geo-spatial Data Centre on Alandi Road, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is about to serve them a second notice indicating judicial action against them. Activists, however, term it as delay by the PMC in forwarding the case to court, which is the ideal procedure.
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.
