India now pays more attention to environment: Venkaiah Naidu
Dehradun, April 25: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said India now pays much more attention to environment than earlier.
Addressing the convocation of 2016 Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy here, Naidu said states must be incentivised for increasing forest cover, adding that Niti Aayog and the Centre must have provisions to encouraging states doing well.
"India is among the fastest growing economies in the world today... It is now paying much more attention to environment than earlier," Naidu said, adding while 15,000 hectares of forest land was anually diverted to non-forest activities before 1980, it was then reduced to 15,500 hectares.
Addressing the trainee officers, Naidu said: "You are entering the forest service at a crucial time in which India is trying to carve out an important and rightful position in the world."
The Vice President also pointed out how management strategies were changed over time.
"I have been told that scientific forest management in India is more than a century old We have come a long way in changing the management strategies from keeping people away from the forests for protection purposes to managing the forest with cooperation of people," he said, asking the batch of IFS, comprising two trainee officers from Bhutan, to keep an approach to balance national interest and welfare of people.
He said top most priority must be given to the forest, rivers, adding that environment protection and economic development must go together.
As per the India State of Forest Report, 2017, India is ranked 10th in the world with 24.4 per cent of land under forest and tree cover. Between 2015 to 2017, India has recorded one per cent growth in forest cover.
Naidu stressed that overgrazing, shifting cultivation and fires have resulted in elimination of many species.
"We need to work with local communities to rehabilitate the degenerated forests and encourage farmers to adopt ecologically sustainable practices. This is not an easy job and best brains and hearts are needed to make this fine balance," he said.
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Buddha Air flight makes emergency landing at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport
Kathmandu, Jan 6: A Buddha Air flight with 76 people on board made an emergency landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here in Nepal after experiencing a left engine flameout.
The flight BHA953, en route to Chandragadi, departed from the TIA at 10:37 am local time.
It experienced a left engine flameout and subsequently initiated a VOR (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range) approach to Kathmandu at 11:15 am, according to a press release circulated by the Tribhuvan International Airport and Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.
There were 72 passengers and 4 crew members on board.
Taking to X, Buddha Air said: “Flight number 953 from Kathmandu to Bhadrapur, with call sign 9N-AJS, was diverted back to Kathmandu after a technical issue was detected in the right engine. The aircraft safely landed at Tribhuvan International Airport at 11:15 AM.”
“Our technical team is currently inspecting the aircraft. Arrangements are being made to send the passengers to Bhadrapur on another flight," it said.
The TIA temporarily halted other operations during the landing of the Buddha Air flight.
काठमाडौंबाट भद्रपुर उडान नं. 953, जहाज कल साईन 9N-AJS, मा दायाँ इञ्जिनमा प्राविधिक समस्या देखिएको हुँदा जहाजलाई पुनः काठमाडौं डाईभर्ट गरि 11:15 मा त्रिभुवन विमानस्थलमा सुरक्षित अवतरण गराईएको छ । जहाजलाई हाम्रा टेक्निकल टिमले चेकजाँच गरिरहेका छन् ।
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