Manipur, Nov. 7 -- From Our Correspondent| UKHRUL

Water conservation and forest regeneration in catchment areas under the project 'Community Based Sustainable Forest Management for Water Resources Conservation in Manipur' will be taken up at Shirui, Choithar and Langdang villages of Ukhrul district, Manipur.

The project has the grand vision of regenerating forest health with a focus on nurturing back or enhancing natural water retention capacity of the soil in the upper watershed of the Manipur river system.

The basic problem that the project aims to address covers two closely interlinked issues that is constant depletion of the water supply from the upper watersheds of the major rivers in Manipur and livelihood of the people depending...