Environment Forest and Climate Change

Key Objectives: Madhya Pradesh Government has introduced this policy for following purposes: To promote environment awareness programmes/training through existing educational institutions/schools/colleges/scientific/research/universities among all sections of society. To spread environment training, especially in the non-formal system among different sections of the society. To facilitate development of training materials and aids in ...

Name of the scheme: National Award for Prevention of Pollution Number of Categories in which the award is given: Awards numbering up to 18 will be given each year, one in each of the identified category of highly polluting industries. These industries have been identified as- Sugar Fertilizer Cement Fermentation ...

Name of the scheme: Medini Puraskar Yojana Purpose: The purpose of the scheme is to promote original authorship on books concerning Environment in Hindi by conferring recognition to the Indian authors who bring out original Hindi books. Subjects: Subjects relating to Environment, identified for the purpose are given below: Pollution ...

Name of the scheme: Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award Purpose: The award is given for significant contribution in the field of wildlife protection, which is recognised as having shown exemplary courage and valour or having done exemplary work for the protection of wildlife in the Country. Nature of the ...

The Green India Mission aims to increase forest cover to 5 million hectares (mha) The National Mission for a Green India (GIM) under the Ministry of Environment has approved Perspective Plans (PP) and Annual Plan of Operations (APOs) for four states, Kerala, Mizoram, Manipur and Jhakhand. The Green India Mission will ...

News: India, China and Bangladesh are among the top recyclers of the world’s waste and the environment ministry had all these years generously permitted import of PET bottles by licensed recycling units in India. The ministry of environment, forests & climate change, issued order, banned import of all used plastic ...

News: National award, with a cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh, will be given to three best rag pickers and three associations involved in innovation of best practices. The Environment Minister has pitched for setting up of a credible agency like Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) that can guide municipal ...

News India  proposed an amendment to the United Nations’ Montreal Protocol, which calls on countries to phase out their use of HFCs, gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and insulating foams that are a highly potent form of greenhouse gas emissions. India’s amendment calls for a 15-year transition period for ...

News The Environment ministry today launched a web-based portal for online submission and tracking of proposals related to environment, forest and wildlife clearances. Benefit It will automate the entire tracking of proposals, including online submission of a new proposal, editing or updating of the details in proposals, and will display ...

News The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the same page over the plan to link rivers across the country. ...