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What the new green clearance regime will mean for India’s Northeast

What the new green clearance regime will mean for India’s Northeast

August 11, 2020 at 5:17 am 0 comments

Sayan Banerjee | Down to Earth India’s northeastern region — comprising Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura — is a unique biodiversity hotspot. The region, however, faces many environmental problems. Successive Indian forest surveys in 2015, 2017 and 2019 reported net deforestation of 628, 630 andRead More