West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has constituted a team of experts to conduct a study of the lands in Sandeshkhali that were illegally grabbed from villagers and turned into fish farms, and suggest ways to utilise them, an official in the Raj Bhavan said. Experts in the field have told PTI that the topsoil of the farmlands allegedly snatched …
A seminar on climate change and man-made disasters that concluded here on Tuesday stressed the need for conserving the remaining patches of forest in the State. The undesirable and unscientific changes in the utilisation of land in ecologically fragile areas were the major reasons behind the recent disasters in the district, P.U. The hill district, spread over 3.5 lakh hectares, …
Kerala has to come up with bold imaginative, but humane, initiatives on environmental land management and new utilisation rules for land and water while maintaining the sustainability of drainage basins considering all related uncertainties, C. P. Rajendran, noted geo-scientist and Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bengaluru. The data that is made available by the …
