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Wildlife Board clears PMGSY road projects in border areas
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Sep, 2021
The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has given clearance for the
completion of a road construction project under the Pradhan Mantri
Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) from Kirchi to Seoj Dhar in Udhampur
district of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. This development
project will benefit 661 people living here.
A small cluster
amid the hills surrounded by forests, including a wildlife sanctuary,
Seoj Dhar has had no all-weather road and was included in the latest
phase of the PMGSY.
The only problem was that some stretches of
the 31.05-km road, taking off at Kirchi village, were to pass through
forest/wildlife areas.
"Forest/wildlife cannot be avoided as the
alignment proposed is the only feasible vital connectivity to the
villages," said the 'Justification letter for forest/wildlife and
diversion' when the proposal was sent for clearance from the NBWL as
nearly 7 hectare of Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary was needed for the road.
Those 661 people have a reason to feel happy now.
The
NBWL, an experts' body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and
Climate Change (MoEF&CC), on Friday cleared the proposal for this
road.
This was not the only road project as four more similar
road projects connecting remote areas in the border regions were cleared
at the 65th meeting of the NBWL Standing Committee.
"The NBWL
Standing Committee recommended five road proposals under the PMGSY in
order to promote first-time connectivity to villages in Jammu &
Kashmir," tweeted Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment,
Forests and Climate Change, soon after the meeting.
A source from
the meeting said the villages are all located in remotest of areas and
the road connectivity is of utmost priority for the people in these
border districts.
Yadav had also recommended that the states or
the UTs should suggest mitigation measures while proposing developmental
projects within protected areas and eco-sensitive zones based on site
specific requirements.
The meeting chaired by Yadav also cleared
some proposals in Ladakh from the frontier areas that are ecologically
sensitive. The meeting cleared three proposals for drinking water supply
in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, and Jammu & Kashmir.
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