Islamabad: The Pakistan government is encouraging farmers and livestock owners to take up beekeeping amid the global loss of honeybees.
The ambitious honey initiative aims “to boost honey beekeeping in a more natural way as an alternative source of livelihood for poor and marginalised households and additional income for farmers”, besides ensuring food security and sustainable environmental conservation, Special Assistant to PM on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam, said at the launch of national apiculture (or beekeeping) programme in Islamabad.
Supporting potential beekeepers
Recognising the importance of bees to the country’s food security, forests and national economy, the government has announced to offer support to the potential beekeepers, especially young people, to adopt modern beekeeping. Under the initiative, people will get training from Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) and support such as interest-free loans and buy-back mechanism.
LAHORE: Major remedies have been recommended for revitalisation of the Ravi river under the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project following various test reports on wastewater quality.
With the launch of civil work on the project after approval and submission of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report, the project team is set to first start work on the renaissance of the river.
“After signing of the Indus Waters Treaty, India constructed additional diversion capacity at Madhopur headworks, diverting the perennial flows. The flows that used to be released downstream to be picked up at Balloki were also diverted from Madhopur. Subsequently, India constructed Thein Dam in 2000 with a live storage capacity of 1.92 million acre feet (MAF). With this India is now capable of storing the flows that used to flow downstream of Madhopur headworks,” reads an internal report of the riverfront project.
PM summons cabinet meeting on 12th
National
January 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned cabinet meeting on Tuesday, January 12, and a 12 points agenda has been issued in connection with the meeting.As per agenda, the Economic Affairs Division will present details of the foreign funds in the meeting.
The cabinet will accord approval to the appointment of DG Legal Aid and Justice Authority decisions of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and cabinet committee for privatisation, establishment of police station, FIA commercial banking circle Lahore, appointment of administrator and election of National Council for Tib and assigning additional charge for the post of DG Hydro Corbon Institute. The construction of multi-storey building on railway land in Nowshera is also likely to be approved.