A two-day meeting on preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) for forestry interventions for the Ganga will begin at Forest Research Institute (FRI) here on Monday with an aim to plan forest interventions for the cleaning of the national river.
According to the FRI officials, the meeting will be inaugurated by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) director general Dr Ashwani Kumar at 9.30 A.M.
More than 100 foresters, scientists, academicians, NGO representatives and other specialists from five states- Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal- through which the Ganga river flows, will be participating in the meeting. Few experts from other parts of the country have also been invited to the event.