Bhubaneswar, May 28 -- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, to take immediate steps to develop urban forests under the "Nagar Van Yojana" (NBY) in Odisha's industrial, coal mining, and heat-affected regions.
During a meeting with Yadav in New Delhi on Wednesday, Pradhan proposed the development of urban forests in the industrial belt of Sambalpur-Jharsuguda-Brajrajnagar, the coal mining areas of Angul-Dhenkanal, and the heat-prone regions of Titilagarh and Balangir under the NBY initiative.
Pradhan also sought Yadav's personal intervention to develop the Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary as part of a tiger reserve, alongside the proposed expansion of ...