How passive restoration has improved forest health in Kashmir
Kashmir lost 18% of dense forests between 1972 to 2010. A study says the problem can be fixed.
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Kashmir lost 18% of dense forests between 1972 to 2010. A study says the problem can be fixed.
Youth call for joint Comm till new created *J&K closes doors for Ladakhis with domicile eligibility Sanjeev Pargal JAMMU, May 8: The Central Government and Union Territory (UT) administration of Ladakh have been unable to constitute the Public Service Commission (PSC) for Ladakh even after two and a half years of making Himalayan region as the UT depriving many educated unemployed youth from becoming the Gazetted Officers. The Jammu and Kashmir PSC has also fixed the eligibility `domiciles of J&K’ […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Forest, Ecology and Environment Department Thursday dismissed services of a Range Officer and a Forester for their involvement in the Common Entrance Test, 2012 scam.
An orchard owner in Budgam's Kani Dajan village surveys the damage. | Safwat Zargar Mohammad Ahsan Wagay does not remember which day it happened. His memory is blurred by the shock. Sometime in the third week of November, a team of forest department officials arrived at Kani Dajan village in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. They left behind a trial of destruction, cutting down hundreds of apple trees and damaging other crops on forest land occupied by village residents. Wagay’s orchard was also flattened. “They axed around 200 of my apple trees,” he said. “They ...