March 6, 2026

Intervention

Intervention

Pench Turns 250 Hectares of Concrete Jungle into forest

The PTR has demolished over 40 concrete buildings and transported about 40,000 tonne debris to suitable sites last year. These quarters, belonging to irrigation department, were constructed in about 50 hectare of reserve forest land temporarily diverted for building a colony for officers and making labour camps for Totladoh dam project between 1974-94. However, encroachments and additional construction by labourers led to the degradation of over 250 hectares land due to various anthropogenic activities.

By Kautilya / October 6, 2021
Intervention

‘DESIGNS’ to Conserve and Restore Thar Desert

To address this, the Jodhpur City Knowledge and Innovation Cluster (JCKIC) has brought together organizations that are engaged in activities ranging from engineering, space research, medicine, agriculture, zoology, and forestry, which have carried out focused efforts in tackling diverse aspects of the Thar desert. This collaboration includes projects that address the complex and networked issues of the desert in an integrative framework.

By Kautilya / September 16, 2021
Governance Intervention

India to Add 35 More Earthquake Observatories by End of This Year and 100 More by Year 2026: Dr. Jitendra Singh

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that India is going to have 35 more earthquake Observatories by end of this year and 100 more such Observatories in next five years. He pointed out that in last six and a half decades since Independence, the country had only 115 Earthquake Observatories but now with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm, there is going to be a quantum leap in the number of Earthquake Observatories in the country.

By Kautilya / August 26, 2021
Governance Intervention

National Strategy for Phase Down of Hydrofluorocarbons After Required Consultation with All the Industry Stakeholders by 2023

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer for phase down of Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) by India, adopted by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on October, 2016 at 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol held at Kigali, Rwanda.

By Kautilya / August 24, 2021
Intervention Research

Satellite-Based Real-Time Monitoring of Himalayan Glacial Catchments can Strengthen Early Flood Warning

This should be the future strategy to reduce loss of human lives during glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF), said a study carried out by scientists from IIT Kanpur. The study carried out by Dr. Tanuj Shukla and Prof. Indra Sekhar Sen, Associate Professor from IIT Kanpur, with support from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, has been published in the international journal ‘Science’.

By Kautilya / April 23, 2021