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Nod for project to conserve indigenous breeds in T.N.
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
Nov. 23.
The Union Environment Ministry has cleared a project to help create awareness on water management and rain water harvesting in four major slums in Chennai. The project would be taken up by the Chennai-based Centre for Women Development and Research at a cost of Rs. 7 lakhs under the Small Grants Programme funded by the Ministry and the Global Environment Facility.
Announcing this, a Ministry spokesperson said the Steering Committee for the Programme, which met here on Friday, also gave its nod for a project to help conserve indigenous animal breeds in six major centres in Tamil Nadu — Madurai, Virudhunagar, Nagapattinam, Thoothukudi, Nilgiris, and Erode. The project would be undertaken by SEVA (Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Action) at a cost of Rs. 13.5 lakhs. In addition, the panel headed by the Joint Secretary, Rajiv Kher, cleared a proposal for provision of alternative employment opportunities for workers engaged in the production of Shatoosh shawls, made by killing `chiru', an endangered animal in Jammu and Kashmir, and a proposal to promote alternative livelihood for the local people in the buffer zone of Suhelwa sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh.
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