TNPSC Thervupettagam

NBW Clearance of Projects

May 12 , 2020 1579 days 1031 0
  • 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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