Punjab faces declining forest and tree cover. Environmental groups are pushing for a tree preservation act. They want stricter regulations and increased tree planting. The aim is to reverse the trend ...

CHANDIGARH: In order to maintain green cover for ensuring ecological balance and to regulate the felling and replanting of trees, the Punjab government has come up with the tree act, The Punjab ...

Chandigarh: In a bid to preserve Punjab's green cover and check environmental degradation, the state govt has imposed strict curbs on tree felling in urban areas, with penal provisions for ...

Introduced in response to National Green Tribunal directives, the bill aims to regulate tree felling in urban and non-forest areas Environmentalists have raised strong objections to the draft of the ...

Tajinder Singh, 47, a farmer in the North Indian state of Punjab, applied for a gun license. He told the authorities that he needed a revolver for self-defense. While tending to his 20 acres of land, ...

The act states that any person granted permission to cut a tree shall be bound to plant and tend two trees in lieu of every tree cut, preferably in the same area. CHANDIGARH: In order to maintain ...