New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has released Rs 8.3 lakh to Biodiversity Management Committees in Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim. This is Access and Benefit Sharing amount operating under the framework of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said on Saturday.

The funds were seamlessly transferred through the respective State Biodiversity Boards directly to two BMCs, namely Narrau village Biodiversity Management Committee, located in Akrabad Kaul Taluk, Aligarh District, Uttar Pradesh and Biodiversity Management Committee in the Lampokhari Lake Area, Aritar, Sikkim.

A company accessed crop materials within the Narrau village for producing fermentable compound...