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The Telangana State Wetland Authority meeting, which convened connected Tuesday, reviewed the process for notification of wetlands successful the State.
Minister for Environment, Forests, Science & Technology Konda Surekha chaired the meeting, and asked officials to expedite the process for the notification.
Officials confirmed crushed truthing of 12,249 wetlands, which had been identified by the Space Applications Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which develops thematic atlases to map, manage, and show earthy resources utilizing outer data.
Of the total, the extents of 4,023 wetlands person been demarcated truthful far. Joint surveys by the Irrigation and Revenue departments is underway for the remaining too. The curate insisted connected close information from the territory wetland authorities done coordination betwixt the departments, and adherence to the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules 2017.
Draft notifications person been readied for large wetlands of Khammam, Jagtial and Nizamabad districts, isolated from 28 different locations, officials informed. They volition soon beryllium notified successful Gazette for nationalist consultations, earlier last notification.
Proposals for declaring Manjeera Wildlife Sanctuary arsenic planetary Ramsar Site came up for treatment during the meeting, and it was informed that the connection is pending with Irrigation section for last opinion, aft which it volition beryllium sent for support to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Notified wetlands volition beryllium protected from encroachments, disposal of coagulated discarded and merchandise of untreated sewage. Principal Secretary, MoEF, Ahmed Nadeem, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests C. Suvarna, Chief Wildlife Warden Vinay Kumar and heads of different departments participated successful the meeting, a connection from the Forest section informed.
