Over 30,000 Saplings To Be Geo-Tagged Ludhiana: With the onset of the monsoon, Ludhiana municipal corporation has launched an ambitious plantation drive targeting 30,000 saplings across the city, while adopting a strategy aimed at improving survival rates by prioritising parks and central verges over roadside stretches.Having procured around 70,000 plants, including trees and shrubs, through…
Panaji: While welcoming the govt’s plan to plant 10,000 saplings in 90 days, the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) warned that the initiative could repeat a familiar cycle in which trees planted during the monsoon are later removed for road widening, utility works and infrastructure projects.Without proper planning, species selection and maintenance, plantations…
Chandigarh: The UT administration will undertake a comprehensive clean-up and restoration of Sukhna Choe, with the forest department set to clear polythene waste and weeds from the choe bed and its banks, even as work to realign the channel has been tendered and is expected to be completed within 90 days.Officials said the project aims…
The civic body had planted 25,000 saplings in various parts of the city last year. In recent months, several established green belts were destroyed to clear the way for laying water supply lines; however, officials stated that replanting will begin in those zones as soon as the pipeline work is completed Ludhiana: The Ludhiana municipal…
The state already has one of the lowest forest covers in the country at around 3.5% Gurgaon: In a shift in its annual afforestation strategy, Haryana govt has asked all districts to identify contiguous land parcels of at least five hectares for plantation during the monsoon.The move marks a departure from the earlier practice of…
The pullback also comes amid an intense summer during which several Haryana districts have recorded temperatures above 43°C The pullback also comes amid an intense summer during which several Haryana districts have recorded temperatures above 43°C The pullback also comes amid an intense summer during which several Haryana districts have recorded temperatures above 43°C The…
