-Pragativadi.com Bhubaneswar: In another significant step towards enhancing nutritional security, Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra directed to promote and popularise jackfruit cultivation in Odisha. The Odisha Chief Secretary gave this direction while presiding over a high-level meeting on production of nutritious fruits held in virtual mode from Lok Seva Bhawan recently wherein Additional Chief Secretary Sanjeeb Chopra outlined the issues for discussion. Mahapatra said, “Jackfruit has high nutritional value, and the agro-climatic conditions...
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This tree lover donates 20 tonnes of sandalwood for the State’s Haritha Nidhi programme -B Satyanarayana Reddy
-The New Indian Express The tree lover has planted over one crore saplings and trees across the State, apart from distributing lakhs of saplings which he grows on his land. KHAMMAM: The Telangana government had permitted Daripalli Ramaiah to sell red sandalwood, but the environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee chose to donate 20 tonnes of the precious wood for the State’s Haritha Nidhi programme. The tree lover has planted over one crore saplings...
More »In Bastar, a fear that school shutdowns help Maoist recruitment -Ritesh Mishra
-Hindustan Times In the last of its five part series on the pandemic, school shutdowns and its effects on India’s children, HT travelled to Bastar to find that not only could this mean the usual learning loss, or problems with the lack of connectivity, but a deeper, more worrying malaise. Bijapur: There is a main road that runs close by, but the government school in Bhairamgarh is hidden from view. The campus...
More »Ken-Betwa river interlinking: Core forest area of Panna tiger reserve will come under water, warns study -Susan Chacko
-Down to Earth At loss: 2 million trees, tiger and its species, 58.03 sq km of critical tiger habitat The Ken-Betwa River Interlinking (KBRIL) Project will lead to the submergence of a major portion of the core area of the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, triggering a major loss of the tiger and its major prey species such as chital and sambar, according to a new study. KBRIL is a river-interlinking project...
More »Mizoram shows why centre’s palm-oil plans will be disastrous for farmers, environment -Kimi Colney
-CaravanMagazine.in On 15 August 2021, marking India’s 75th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd-packed Red Fort. “Just as we are making sure that no person or no class should be left behind in the development journey of society, similarly no part of the country, no corner of the country, should be left behind,” he told the crowd. “Development should be all-round, development should be all-pervasive, development should be...
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