The proposed sanctuary will span around 227 hectares, covering nearly 6.7% of the wetland area. The site is ecologically important and serves as a habitat for a wide range of waterbirds, including both resident and migratory species.
Truck Mounted Attenuators are specially engineered impact-absorbing devices designed to reduce the severity of collisions.
The government said the programme has made visible progress on the ground. As of March 2026, 31,055 individuals had been identified under the beggary rehabilitation sub-scheme, while 9,935 had been rehabilitated. The release also said 21 Garima Grehs, which serve as shelter homes for transgender persons, are currently operational across 17 states, with three more sanctioned in August 2025.
By leveraging Aadhaar Offline Verification methods—such as QR code-based verification and secure, digitally signed documents—entities can now “Show, Share, and Verify” identity information without requiring real-time connectivity to UIDAI’s central database.
A major share of the scheme’s strategic weight falls on the North East and the Himalayan frontier regions, where terrain, climate stress, cross-border river systems and infrastructure gaps make water planning particularly complex.
A major pillar of the programme is digital monitoring. The Poshan Tracker platform, launched on March 1, 2021, now enables near real-time tracking of service delivery across the country. As of March 2026, it was monitoring nearly 14.03 lakh Anganwadi Centres and about 8.95 crore eligible beneficiaries, including pregnant women, lactating mothers, children up to six years of age and adolescent girls.
The female cheetah, identified as KGP12, is the second cub from Gamini’s first litter and is around 25 months old. According to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, she had been living in the wild for more than a year before successfully delivering the cubs under natural conditions at Kuno.
In the first phase, NHAI has prepared an action plan covering 17 land parcels spread across 62.8 hectares, where around 67,462 medicinal trees will be planted. The sites are located along highway projects in Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi-NCR, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh.
The move fits into a wider official framework that has been building over the past year. In July 2025, the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti said nine Yamuna-related sewerage projects in Delhi, creating 1,268 MLD of treatment capacity at a cost of ₹1,951 crore, had been completed under the Namami Gange Programme. The same Lok Sabha reply said ₹140 crore had been allocated jointly by NMCG and the Delhi government for Yamuna cleaning since January 2025, of which ₹108.31 crore had been utilised at that stage.
The April 4, 2026 update from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas presents a coordinated picture of crisis management in which fuel availability, consumer reassurance, supply-chain continuity and overseas assistance move together as part of a single national response framework.
