Data Story: In 6 years, forest land the size of Nagaland diverted
Thejesh GN
Forest land nearly equal to the size of Nagaland has been approved for diversion between 2014 and 2020 or is pending to be approved for various infrastructure and developmental projects such as mining, irrigation, and regularisation of encroachments, according to an analysis by Vijay Ramesh, a PhD student at Columbia University.
Ramesh has analysed 48,000 clearance proposals using the R programming language (the raw data is available on GitHub). He sourced the forest clearance data from the Union environment ministry’s Parivesh website, which has details of all clearances divided into two sections—before 2014 and after 2014.
Nikhil VJ
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Nikhil VJ
On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 11:26:18 PM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote:
It would be great if there was a publicly available map of all projects.This seems to be the repo mentioned: https://github.com/pratikunterwegs/forest-clearance-india(the news article as is typical of Indian media outlets makes sure to never link to the sources they're talking about - I got this on searching the web)
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 4:54 PM Thejesh GN <> wrote:
--Forest land nearly equal to the size of Nagaland has been approved for diversion between 2014 and 2020 or is pending to be approved for various infrastructure and developmental projects such as mining, irrigation, and regularisation of encroachments, according to an analysis by Vijay Ramesh, a PhD student at Columbia University.
Ramesh has analysed 48,000 clearance proposals using the R programming language (the raw data is available on GitHub). He sourced the forest clearance data from the Union environment ministry’s Parivesh website, which has details of all clearances divided into two sections—before 2014 and after 2014.
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