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Title: India during the last five years diverted over 88,903 hectares of forest land — a size more than the area of Mumbai and Kolkata put together — for non-forestry purpose, with the highest of over 19,424 hectares being for road construction followed by 18,84
Source:The Indian Express
Date:25 April 2023
The Ministry of Jal Shakti has released the report of India’s first water bodies census, a comprehensive data base of ponds, tanks, lakes, and reservoirs in the country. The census was conducted in 2018-19, and enumerated more than 2.4 million water bodies across all states and Union Territories. According to the report, “A structure where water from ice-melt, streams, springs, rain or drainage of water from residential or other areas is accumulated or water is stored by diversion from a stream, nala or river will also be treated as water body.
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