No more 8km trek for water as tribal hamlet 120km near Mumbai to finally get motorable road | Mumbai News

When Dapurmal village’s rainwater source dries up each summer, women and girls trek 8km through steep terrain to collect their pots of water Shahapur: The hilltop village of Dapurmal — a remote adivasi hamlet of around 325 people perched above Upper Vaitarna dam in Thane district’s Shahapur taluka, around 120km from Mumbai — will finally…

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Increasing wildlife population has intensified concerns of human-animal conflict in Shivamogga district

Increasing population of the wildlife in the state, has also increased the fear of human-animal conflict in the district among locals Shivamogga: As the wildlife population in the state increases, human-wildlife conflict is also intensifying, stated Kumar Pushkar, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) and chief wildlife warden.Speaking after inaugurating the two-day national conference on…

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