Ooty shows the way for plastic-free 2019
Year 2019 is upon us. And tomorrow onwards, there will be a complete ban on single-use disposable plastic across Tamil Nadu. While this initiative may be just making inroads into some parts of the state,
Ooty
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Local travails
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Tourist influx too large; earnings flow downhill; <font color=red>Status:</font> Residents forced to share meagre facilities with tourists; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Regulate tourist flow; channelise funds for devel
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Boom
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Terrain forbids sprawl as in cities in the plains; <font color=red>Status:</font> Alarming population density people per sq km ; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Policy question is: decongest, but how?
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Best for mushrooms
For the cultivation of the popular button mushrooms, many different types of composts have been used. However, experiments with six types in a completely randomised design at the Horticultural