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Monday, 23 April 2018

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur meets Union Minister for Environment

Dharamshala, April 23, 2018: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, met Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Dr.Harsh Vardhan in New Delhi on Monday and urged him for sanctioning two major projects prepared by Himachal Pradesh Government to save its valuable natural resources in view of the climate change. This was disclosed in a press release issued here.

Union Minister assured the Chief Minister that Centre will full support to the efforts of Himachal Pradesh Government in maintaining forest and ecological balance and efforts will be made to provide technical and financial clearance for the projects submitted to the Centre by the State Government for this purpose after their detailed study.

Thakur told Union Minister , “State Environment, Science & Technology department had submitted two projects of estimated cost of Rs. 1644.32 crore to the Central Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change through National Agriculture & Rural Bank (NABARD). Among them, an ambitious project of Rs. 1125.32 crore was water conservation and community management of natural water resources and the second one of Rs. 492 crore was on climate based forest management.”

https://www.cityairnews.com/content/chief-minister-jai-ram-thakur-meets-union-minister-environment

Sunday, 22 April 2018

Top government functionaries, renowned higher judiciary members & environment activists, come on single platform for 'protection of environment'

Chandigarh, April 22, 2018: Chandigarh hosted a first of a kind Regional Conference on Environment, in Panjab University. The Conference was organised by ‘Global Platform for Environment(GPE)' - an NGO made up of a dynamic team of Advocates and Environmentalists. Hon'ble Mr.Justice Swatanter Kumar, Former Chairman National Green Tribunal(NGT) & Ex Judge of Supreme Court of India is the National Convenor, (GPE) & he was present along with Reeta Kohli Senior Advocate- SIOLI(Serving in Organisations for Legal Initiatives ), which is working effectively for environmental awareness in the states of Punjab, Haryana , Himachal , J & K and UT Chandigarh.

The conference saw a pertinent inaugural session, followed by 3 technical sessions & a valedictory session. Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana was Chief guest for inaugural session. Justice Swatanter Kumar delivered the welcome address. "Our team is planning to go to different regions especially rural areas to spread environmental awareness. We also plan to plant 10000 trees. We are going to hold conferences like this one in Shimla, Gurgaon, Amritsar & Srinagar." Said Justcice Swatanter Kumar.

https://www.cityairnews.com/content/top-government-functionaries-renowned-higher-judiciary-members-environment-activists-come

Sampla meets Haiti Prez, PM and foreign minister, discusses strengthening of bilateral ties

Chandigarh, April 22, 2018: Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Vijay Sampla led an Indian delegation on a three-day visit to the Caribbean nation of Haiti for promoting and further strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries.

During this visit, which concluded on April 20, Sampla first met Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and thanked him for supporting the re-election of India’s judge to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Sampla assured Moise that India will back Haiti for the non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council in the 2020 elections.

Presenting Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant with a gift sent by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sampla conveyed him the message that India looks towards Haiti as its special friend. Sampla, in his meeting with Lafontant, stated that both India and Haiti should work towards strengthening cooperation in areas such as agriculture, technical education, solar energy, IT and other bilateral issues.

https://www.cityairnews.com/content/sampla-meets-haiti-prez-pm-and-foreign-minister-discusses-strengthening-bilateral-ties

CROPS CATCHING FIRE: Haryana CM orders special girdawari to compensate farmers for loss of crops

Chandigarh, April 22, 2018: In view of the growing incidents of crops catching fire, the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, today ordered a special girdawari to compensate the farmers for the loss of crops. The state government is also working on different alternatives to increase the prescribed limit for procurement of mustard and bajra and plans to export mustard oil.

The Chief Minister disclosed this while addressing dealers and farmers after inspecting wheat procurement in the Jhajjar Anaj Mandi, today. The Minister of State for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Mr Karan Dev Kamboj, was also present. Mr Manohar Lal inspected the weight of wheat sacks on scales before loading, besides the quality of wheat and the pace of procurement.

He congratulated the farmers for producing bumper wheat production in the state. In the previous season, about 74 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was procured while this season, 65 lakh metric tonnes of wheat has already been procured and the procurement process would continue for ten more days, he added.

https://www.cityairnews.com/content/crops-catching-fire-haryana-cm-orders-special-girdawari-compensate-farmers-loss-crops

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Jammu High Court Bar Association tells SC it did not support lawyers' protest in Kathua case

Jammu High Court Bar Association tells SC it did not support lawyers' protest in Kathua case: The Jammu High Court Bar Association on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it did not support lawyers' protest in connection with the Kathua gangrape and murder case.

Supreme Court dismisses pleas seeking probe in justice Loya's death

Supreme Court dismisses pleas seeking probe in justice Loya's death: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of CBI judge B.H. Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.