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NBW Clearance of Projects
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- The National Board for Wildlife (NBW), headed by Prime Minister, met last time in 2014.
- After 6 years gap, it recently gave its approval for the following projects.
- Drilling of boreholes inside Sharavathi Lion Tailed Macaque sanctuary in Karnataka.
- Construction and commissioning of Lakhwar Multipurpose Project (300 MW) in Dehradun and TehriGarhwal districts by Uttarakhand, close to the Binog Wildlife Sanctuary.
- Railway line through Amrabad tiger corridor in Telangana.
- Highway expansion through the Mollem Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa.
- Etalin hydropower project on DibangRiver in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley.
- Dibang is a tributary of the Brahmaputra river which flows through the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
Dibang Valley
- Dibang Valley is one of India’s most biodiverse zones.
- It is also home for the Idu Mishmi community.
- It has subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest and subtropical rain forests.
- The project falls under the richest bio-geographical province of the Himalayan zone and one of the mega biodiversity hotspots of the world.
- The proposed project location falls at the junction of the Paleoarctic, Indo-Chinese, and Indo-Malayan biogeographic regions.
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