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India’s Forest Cover Increasing, Better Than World Average, Says Union Environment Secretary

India’s Forest Cover Increasing, Better Than World Average, Says Union Environment Secretary

by The Daily Eye Team April 6 2017, 1:26 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

Ajay Narayan Jha, secretary, ministry of environment and forests, said at the inauguration of the 19th Commonwealth forestry conference that began at the Forest Research Institute,Dehradun, on Monday, that India's forest cover has improved in comparison to the world average. "The world over, average per capita forest cover has declined from 0.8 ha to 0.6 ha per person but in India, a net increase of 1.82% forest cover has been registered in the past 30 years," Jha said.

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Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is a film buff and an editor. Books commissioned and edited by him have won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema twice and the inaugural MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Images) Award for Best Writing on Cinema. In 2017, he was named Editor of the Year by the apex publishing body, Publishing Next. He has written for the online magazine Film Companion. He is a consultant, writer and editor for the newly launched film website Cinemaazi.com. He is the author of two books: Whims – A Book of Poems (published by Writers Workshop) and Icons from Bollywood (published by Penguin/Puffin).    


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