{"id":126167,"date":"2021-11-18T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=126167"},"modified":"2021-11-18T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:18:22","slug":"indias-first-grass-conservatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/indias-first-grass-conservatory\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first grass conservatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question &#8211; Where has India&#8217;s first grass conservation area been established?<\/strong><br>(a) Chamba<br>(b) Ranikhet<br>(c) Mussoorie<br>(d) Nainital<br><strong>Answer\u2014(b)<br>Related facts\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India&#8217;s first \u2018grass conservatory\u2019 spread over an area of two acres has recently(November 2021) inaugurated at Ranikhet in Almora district.<\/li><li><strong>CAMPA scheme &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>The conservatory was developed in three years by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department, Chief Conservator of Forest (research).<\/li><li>It has been funded under the Central Government&#8217;s CAMPA scheme.<\/li><li><strong>Significance &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>Around 90 different grass species of significant scientific, ecological, medicinal, and cultural import have been grown in the conservation area.<\/li><li>It would create awareness about the importance of grass species, promote their conservation, and facilitate research in the field.<\/li><li>The initiative assumes importance as it has been proved in latest researches that grasslands are more effective in \u2018carbon sequestration\u2019 than forest land.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/indias-first-grass-conservatory-developed-in-uttarakhand-s-ranikhet-11636876452894.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/indias-first-grass-conservatory-developed-in-uttarakhand-s-ranikhet-11636876452894.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question &#8211; Where has India&#8217;s first grass conservation area been established?(a) Chamba(b) Ranikhet(c) Mussoorie(d) NainitalAnswer\u2014(b)Related facts\u2014 India&#8217;s first \u2018grass conservatory\u2019 spread over an area of two acres has recently(November 2021) inaugurated at Ranikhet in Almora district. CAMPA scheme &#8212; The conservatory was developed in three years by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department, Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":126168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-126167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126169,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126167\/revisions\/126169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}