No Land In India Is Truly Waste: ATREE-CPD Convened National Panel Demands Urgent Reclassification Of India’s Wastelands Worth Inr 5-7 Lakh Crores Annually
On screen (clockwise): Kunal Satyarthi (IFS, Joint Secretary, MoRD), Aniruddh Sheth (CEP), From (L-R): Subrata Singh (FES), Manish Parmar (ISRO-SAC), Archana Chatterjee (IUCN/FLR), Purnendu Kavoori (CSE), Dr. Abi T. Vanak, Director, CPD-ATREE
Expert consensus (Union Ministry of Rural Development, Centre for Pastoralism, Foundation for Ecological Security, ISRO-Space Applications Centre, IUCN/Forest Landscape Restoration, Centre for Social Ecology, and ATREE-CPD): Colonial-era “wasteland” categorisation threatens biodiversity, pastoral livelihoods, and India’s global climate commitments
New Delhi [India], November 21: A high-level panel convened by the WestBridge-supported Centre for Policy Design (CPD) at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATRE...









