SRINAGAR: The formation of a Union territory level committee to implement the National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) in Jammu and Kashmir has been approved by the government.
The Committee, as per an order a replica of which lies with Srinagar-based news agency Global News Service (GNS), will be headed by Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Department as Chairman with Director Agriculture Jammu; MD, JKAGROS; MD JKHMPC; Director Agriculture Kashmir; Representative of Forest, Ecology and Environment Department (not below the rank of Additional Secretary); Representative of Tribal Affairs Department (not below the rank of Additional Secretary); Secretary KVIC; Representative of ICAR; Joint Director, Agriculture and Mushrooms, Kashmir and Joint Director Agriculture and Mushrooms, Jammu to act as members besides Director Agriculture Kashmir also to act as Nodal Officer of the committee.
National
April 22, 2021
MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA Babar Saleem Swati has demanded the federal government to pay the compensation amount to people whose land has been acquired for the airport in Lassan Nawab area of the district.
“The federal government, despite releasing an amount of Rs480 million for the land, is now reluctant to pay this to landowners concerned, this is why the strategically important project is being hurdled,” Swati told reporters here on Wednesday.
The lawmaker said the government had acquired 6276 kanals of land for the airport in 2016, but the PTI-led federal government de-notified its section-4 of Land Acquisition Act. “As the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has adopted a unanimous resolution moved by me in one of its recent sessions demanding an early completion to this project, the federal government should honour it and expedite the work on this important project,” he said.
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Banned party offices, seminary sealed
National
April 20, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has directed the police and district administration to seal the offices and seminaries of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) after it was banned by the federal government.
A source said that the Home and Tribal Affairs Department directed the police and deputy commissioner to seal the proscribed TLP offices. The district offices of the TLP in Peshawar and Charsadda as well as a seminary were sealed after the directives, added the source.
In Kashmir, the long-awaited Forest Rights Act is a boon for some – but pastoralists are anxious
Herders and shepherds, who do not have Scheduled Tribe status, fear that they will be blocked from grazing grounds and evicted from their summer shelters. 2 hours ago Abdul Rashid, a forest dweller and pastoralist from Budgam, is worried about his community s land and their livelihood. | Athar Parvaiz
Thousands of forest dwellers in Kashmir are hoping that the Forest Rights Act, 2006, which is finally being implemented in the region 12 years after it came into force elsewhere in India. will protect their rights over forest resources.