Asia's biggest forestry project - the
Rs 795 crare Madhya Pradesh
forestry project - has been launched
on October 16 in the state. The main
aims of the project are to conserve
biological heritage, increase the for-st cover and the productivity of the
forest$.
As part of theLovt your Forese programme, the dense jungles of Mahsal
in the Daugs district of Gujarat will
be thro%m open to tourists. The Dang
jungles have over 85 species of panthers and other wildlife.
Consequent to the mine disaster at
Dhanbad, Bihar the Bharat Coking
Coal Limited authorities are evacuating all inhabitants in be area as the
possibility of leakage of poisonous
gases like carbon monoxide and
methane and large-scale submergence were strong.
Village to& can now look forward to
many more doctors in their midst
with rural service for aperiod of three
years made compulsory for all medical graduates. This war the outcome
of the fourth conference of the
Central Council for Health and
Family Welfare held in New Delhi on
October 13.
Pant, which is fast emerging as the
centrelor Indias progressive farming
techniques, will host the biennial
kisan expo to be held from December
13-17. The expo will focus on
pesticides, new agricultural implements and horticulture.
Thapar DuPont Ltd, desperate to 80
a toe-hold in India, has submitted The
Environment Impact Assesu
study of the proposed Rs 625 crew
plant site at Gummidipoondi. The
report was forwarded to the Tamil
Nadu Pollution Control Board on
October 16 at Madras.
As part of the policy to eradicate child
tabour, a 'Food for Education
Programme'lias been suggested by G
Venkata Swami, the Union labour
minister. One kg of cereal a day will
be given to the family of a child
tabourer if the child is taken off hazardous jobs and sent to school.
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