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Buxwaha Jungles, India | Deforestation | Climate Change | Diamonds | Is Aditya Birla Group's desire for more profit actual culprit ?

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Welcome to my blog, in this blog I will present my analysis and findings to clarify in very simple words an extremely important topic running across the length & breadth of India.  Fig 1: Map of Buxwaha Jungle Buxwaha Jungle is situated in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh roughly 650 k.ms south of Indian Capital New Delhi in Chattarpur District with a population of 10,216 as per 2011 census. Recently the Government (Govt.) granted permission to cut down 2,15,875 Trees  for Diamond Mining by Aditya Birla group company Essel Mining , this will not only result in a very large scale deforestation but will also have negative impact on Tiger conservation, loss of plants & animals species and a deep risk to local Tribal people who have been living in this area for 100s of years. The worst of all: this area is drought prone so deforestation will further increase the problem of water shortage. Additionally an important point to note: Diamond Mining is a water intensive project. On the o

Save Lakshdweep! Extreme Bad governance by Centre (BJP) Govt.

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Due to some personal commitments/emergencies, I was not regular on my blog, nevertheless here is my latest blog on yet another example of bad governance by Indian central govt.  Lakshdweep Airport Lakshdweep and Andaman Nicobar Islands are two pearls of India- these are cleanest, richest bio-diversity and very pristine climate places of India. Recently Government of India brought 1 major change in the    administration of the Union Territory of Lakshdweep.  What exactly happened ? The blog elaborates more. A brief on Lakshdweep:   Lakshdweep is formed by combination 35 small, very beautiful and extremely rich bio-diversified Islands in Arabian Sea at Indian Ocean, India.  The total surface area of Lakshdweep is 32.62 k.m*k.m (this is lesser than 7% the total area of Indore- India's cleanest city) and as per 2011 Indian census the total population of Lakshdweep is less than 65 thousand - This is approx equal to the population of Itanagar- the capital city of  Indian state Arunachal