Over nine lakh trees likely to be axed for Great Nicobar Project.
Relevance: GS Paper- 1 Geography and vegetation. Tags: #upsc #environment #greatnicobarproject. Why in the news? According to the Minister of State (Environment), the Union government’s ambitious ₹72,000-crore Great Nicobar Project may see 9.64 lakh trees felled. In lieu of the trees being chopped, compensatory afforestation would be carried out in Haryana as “the scope of …
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