For people, Surat & Ahd top list
New Delhi: In sharp contrast with the findings of the first Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems, Surat and Ahmedabad topped the list of 11 cities in the public survey on quality of life and city-system.
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Survey to demarcate AP mines lease areas
The Centre on Monday informed Parliament that a survey will be conducted by the Survey of India by the end of July to demarcate the mining lease areas of five mines in Andhra Pradesh.
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Major changes in coastal geography near Paradip
BHUBANESWAR: The coastal zone of Paradip is undergoing rapid geographical changes. The shoreline and the beach area in the zone have sustained major shifts in characteristics in the past three decades.
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State forest cover 27,645 sq km
The State has a forest coverage of 27,645 sq km as per the Forest Survey of India report-2005. The area under forest and tree cover is 29,129 sq km.
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Reddy mines: AP told to sort border issue
June 22: The Union ministry of environment and forests has stepped up pressure on the AP government to expedite the inspection of its borders with Karnataka by taking the support of the Survey of India.
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HC raps Forest Dept for delay in despatch of letter
The Karnataka High Court on Monday pulled up the Forest department for delay in despatching the letter to Survey of India to be part of the joint survey of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh borders.
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Topographical survey of Altinho hill likely
A team of Survey of India experts is expected to arrive in the State next month to carry out a topographical survey of Altinho hill as a part of project to prepare a master drainage plan.
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27 trees cut: PMC to serve second notice to Survey of India
Pune A month after 27 trees were illegally cut by the Survey of India (SOI) in its Maharashtra and Goa Geo-spatial Data Centre on Alandi Road, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is about to serve them a second notice indicating judicial action against them. Activists, however, term it as delay by the PMC in forwarding the case to court, which is the ideal procedure.
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Now, Himachal Forest dept in soup for publishing map sans approval
Shimla: If the controversy around the printing of a wrong map in the official diaries was not enough, the forest department has been caught on the wrong foot. A state map with redefined boundaries of wildlife sanctuaries has been published without the approval of the authorised empowered committee appointed for rationalisation of sanctuaries by the Supreme Court and the Survey of India.
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Court team to probe felling
The high court on Monday set up a three-member committee to probe the felling of trees at the Indian Botanic Garden.