Govt points fifth draft notification to declare Western Ghats as ecologically delicate space
The Centre has issued a fifth draft notification to declare over 56,800 sq. kilometres of the Western Ghats throughout six states, together with 13 villages in Kerala’s landslide-hit Wayanad, Ecologically Delicate Space (ESA), inviting options and objections inside 60 days. The notification was issued on July 31, a day after a sequence of landslides in … Read more