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GS-1SAL FORESTS AND TRIBAL ECONOMY

The Thirty-Year Beetle: What the Sal Borer Epidemic Reveals About Central India's Forest Economy

The Centre has approved the felling of 1.47 lakh infested sal trees in Madhya Pradesh's Dindori district, one of the largest sal-felling operations in the region in recent years. Villagers are simultaneously being paid to collect sal heartwood borer beetles from trap trees to curb the epidemic. Madhya Pradesh is cutting down 1.47 lakh Sal trees in Dindori to control a massive outbreak of the Sal heartwood borer, while paying…

Sub TopicSAL HEARTWOOD BORER EPIDEMIC IN DINDORI AND THE…SourceINDIAN EXPRESS, ILLUSTRATED…
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GS-1KAKATIYA ARCHITECTURE AND HERITAGE CONSERVATION

The Threat From Below: Why a Coal Mine 5 km Away Could Undo Ramappa's 800-Year-Old Foundation

A delegation of heritage activists met Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy in Hyderabad, seeking his intervention against the proposed PVNR opencast coal mine near the Ramappa Temple. The activists say Singareni Collieries Company Ltd is preparing to take up the project despite geological warnings that it could destabilise the temple's foundation and the adjoining lake. They have announced mass protests across 15…

Sub TopicRAMAPPA TEMPLE, SANDBOX FOUNDATION AND THE PVNR OPENCAST…SourceTHE HINDU, METRO INDIA, DECCAN…
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