Presentation made to the public representatives (TRS Party - CM, Ministers, Parliamentarians and MLCs) of Telangana state on 2nd May 2015 at Nagarjuna Saggar

1. ENVIRONMENT, DISASTER
MANAGEMENT AND FORESTS
Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
Dr. W. G.Prasanna Kumar
Dr. K. Tirupataiah

2. Strategic Location
Most safe and secure location
in India

3. GONDWANA LAND

4. DECCAN
PLATEAU
Elevated
Well drained
Pleasant
climate

5. OUR NATURAL HERITAGE

6. RELIEF
MAP

9. CLIMATE CHANGE
VARIABILITY IN SEMI-
ARID REGIONS
Precipitation is less than
potential evapotranspiration.
Low annual rainfall of 25 to 60
centimeters and having scrubby
vegetation with short, coarse
grasses; not completely arid.

10. CLIMATE CHANGE VARIABILITY IN
SEMI-ARID REGIONS
Climate Variability and
extremes
The people vulnerable to
droughts
Increasing crop failures,
dislocation, famine, poverty
& social inequities.
In 2009 witnessed
• 50 years old
drought
• 100 years old
flood

11. SOILS

12. PEOPLE OF
TELANGAN
A PEACEFUL, TOLERANT
AND HARD WORKING

13. HIGHLY
ADAPTIVE
HIGHLY
MOBILE

14. SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs
(The Brundtland Commission,1987)

15. Capitals

16. Global Climate Change and Urbanization
1900
15% urban
2000
~50% urban

17. LESS VISUAL BUT WITH MAJOR
IMPACT
> Temperature increase
> Less & erratic rain
Agriculture and food security
Crop yields, irrigation demands...
Forest
Composition, health and productivity...
Water resources
Water supply, water quality...
Species and natural areas
Biodiversity, modification of
ecosystems...
Human health
Infectious diseases, human
settlements...
Consequences of
climate change:

18. MAJOR CONCERNS
DROUGHT PROOFINGRURAL
• SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
ENVIRONMENTURBAN
• SUSTAINABLE HABITATS

19. RURAL CHALLENGES
Climate change -
variability -
extremes
Soil fertility Water
management
Impact of
hazardous
pesticides and
nitrogen fertilizers
Burning of crop
residue
Alkalinity of soils

20. Mahabubnagar District Rainfall Pattern
y = -4.6207x + 851.14
R2
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21. DROUGHT
Skewed distribution of rainfall – 40% deficit from June-
August which is the sowing season
Depletion of ground water situation
Untimely heavy rains during Sept – Oct affects the crops
Lack of Rainfall during November-December adversely
affects Rabi sowings

22. 0% 20% 40% 60%
Drought
Crop Failure
Crop Disease
Drop in crop prices
Bad investment
0% 10% 20% 30%
Wait for rain before sow
Seek non-farm w ork
Sow less
Sow substitute crops
Don't sow (fallow )
Weighted self-
reports:
“What are the
major sources of
risk faced by your
household?
Weighted self-
reports:
“If it does not
rain, what do you
do?”

23. Challenges
Sector Challenges
Environmen
t
Solid Waste management, Sewage
treatment, air pollution,
Industrial environmental
compliance
Disaster
Management
Recurring Droughts, urban floods,
eroding natural resources
Forests Degradation, competing demands
for deforestation, raising forest
cover outside forest area, urban
greenery

24. •
ENVIRONMENT
MAJOR CHALLENGES

25. Air Quality in Indian Cities
US Embassy New Delhi - AQI 133 on 4/30/2015 9:00:00 PM
US Consulate Hyderabad - AQI 140 on 4/30/2015 9:00:00 PM
US Consulate Chennai - AQI 58 on 4/30/2015 9:00:00 PM
US Consulate Kolkata - AQI 87 on 4/30/2015 9:00:00 PM
US Consulate Mumbai - AQI 137 on 4/30/2015 9:00:00 PM

26. Solid Waste in cities in India

27. Environmental Challenges:
• Sewage Untreated: 1370 MLD Sewage in
GHMC area with 600 MLD treatment
capacity
• 10 MLD STP required for 1 lakh population
• 1 MLD cost Rs 1 Crore and O& M per year
Rs 20 lakhs
• 6000 Industries under PCB Monitoring
• Introduction of Clean Fuels, CNG Buses,
Metro rail, Fly overs seamless traffic flow,
15 years or older vehicles ban from urban
areas

28. DISASTER
MANAGEMENT
MAJOR CHALLENGES

29. SAND
MINING

30. Dealing with Waste
management in
School
Engaging in School based activity

31. ENVIRONMENT: BEST
PRACTICES
Japan's Fukuoka Method Implemented In The FSM

33. Disaster Management : Best
Practices

34. Way Forward : Improved
Stoves:

35. Way Forward: Adaptation :
Polyhouse, Green House &
SWAR

36. Way Forward: Weather Based Crop
Insurance
Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
saibhaskarnakka@gmail.com
6th September 2013

37. Way Forward: BIOCHAR
Biochar is another name for
charcoal used for purposes
other than combustion.
Like all charcoal, biochar is
created by the pyrolysis of
biomass.

38. Way Forward: BIOCHAR
APPLICATION
SOIL CARBON INCREASE
MOISTURE CONSERVATION
FERTILIZERS CONSERVATIO
INCREASE IN YIELD

39. Way Forward:
CONSERVATION OF URBAN
WATER BODIES

40. Way Forward:
FLOATIGATION

41. Way Forward:
FLOATIGATION

42. Way Forward:
FLOATIGATION

43. Way Forward: Floating Garden and Parks

44. Perforated pipe
Sand
Biochar
Gravel
Way Forward:
SEWAGIGATION

45. Road
Sewerage
Clean water for irrigation
Drip Irrigation
Way Forward:
SEWAGIGATION

46. Way Forward:
SEWAGIGATION

47. CITY
River
Catchment of city
Green Belt
Ringroad
Cascades
Way Forward: Future cities – annular / circular / segregated
water harvesting water bodies

48. Way Forward: Roads as Water Sources for Filling Urban Water Bodies

49. Way Forward:

50. Way Forward: OUTER RING ROAD – 158 KMS LENGTH
PROPOSED REGIONAL RING ROAD – 290 KMS
POTENTIAL FOR ~100 WATER BODIES CREATION

51. Way Forward: Roads as
Dams

52. Way Forward:Way Forward: River Front
Development

53. Way Forward: WATER USE
EFFICIENCY
MONITORING
WATER AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
PARAMETERS
MONITORING
MANAGEMENT
DECISION
SUPPORT
SYSTEMS

54. Way Forward: Monitoring the flows

55. Way Forward:
Way Forward: Monitoring the flows

56. Solar Power
Arduino, SIM 900,
Battery, Temp and
Relative Humidity
sensor
Bowman Water Tube
with ultrasonic sensor
RBC Flume with
ultrasonic sensor
ClimaAdapt Project, Kondrapole, Miryalaguda, Nalgonda
Way Forward:

57. Water Level in Field water tube (Bowman)
using ultrasonic sensor
Way Forward:

58. Way Forward: AUTOMATIC WEATHER
STATION

59. Way Forward:
AWARENESS
TO
CHILDRREN
ON WATER
CONSERVATI
ON &
MONITORING
ClimaAdapt Project,
Kondrapole,
Miryalaguda, Nalgonda

60. Glow Level for
Tube wells –
Colour LEDs
for different
levels of
water in the
tube wells
Way Forward:

61. SOIL MOISTURE
MEASUREMENT
IN THE SOIL
Way Forward:

62. Way Forward:

63. Way Forward:

64. NAPCC – Match NATIONAL
MISSIONS
National Solar Mission: Development and use
of solar energy for power generation
National Mission for Enhanced Energy
Efficiency: yield savings of 10,000 MW.
National Mission on Sustainable Habitat:
energy efficiency for urban planning.
National Water Mission: 20% improvement in
water use efficiency: Water Grid
Way Forward:

65. NAPCC – Match National
Missions
National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan
Ecosystem
National Mission for a “Green India”: afforestation of
6 million hectares of forest cover from 23% to 33%
Haritha Haram
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture: climate-
resilient crops, weather insurance and agriculture :
Mission Kakatiya
National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate
Change for a better understanding.
Way Forward:

66. FORESTS

67. Important forest species
• Teak is the important species growing in,
Adilabad, Nizamabad, Warangal, Karimnagar
and Khammam.
• Fine quality of bamboo is available in the
districts of khammam, Mahaboobnagar,
Adilabad, warangal,
• Abnus leaf (Beedi leaf) major MFP in
Telangana
• custard apples- a livelihoods source

68. LESS VISUAL BUT WITH MAJOR
IMPACT
> Temperature increase
> Less & erratic rain
Agriculture and food security
Crop yields, irrigation demands...
Forest
Composition, health and
productivity...
Water resources
Water supply, water quality...
Species and natural areas
Biodiversity, modification of
ecosystems...
Human health
Infectious diseases, human
settlements...
Consequences of
climate change:

69. NAPCC - National Missions
National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan
Ecosystem
National Mission for a “Green India”:
afforestation of 6 million hectares of forest
cover from 23% to 33%
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture: climate-
resilient crops, weather insurance and agriculture.
National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate
Change for a better understanding.

70. Important forest species
• Teak is the important species growing in,
Adilabad, Nizamabad, Warangal, Karimnagar
and Khammam.
• Fine quality of bamboo is available in the
districts of khammam, Mahaboobnagar,
Adilabad, warangal,
• Abnus leaf (Beedi leaf) major MFP in
Telangana
• custard apples- a livelihoods source

71. FORESTS
MAJOR
CHALLENGES

75. Challenges
Sector Challenges
Environment Solid Waste management, Sewage treatment, air
pollution, Industrial environmental compliance
Disaster
Management
Recurring Droughts, urban floods, eroding natural
resources
Forests Degradation, competing demands
for deforestation, raising forest
cover outside forest area, urban
greenery

76. Telangana ku HARITHA HAARAM
• Aim: to increase green cover up to 33% of
Geographical Area (present 25.16%)
• 230 crore saplings ( 100 cr inside forest,
120 cr outside forest, 10 cr urban areas)
• 40 lakh saplings per assembly
constituency
• Out lay Rs.800 cr/year
• 2015-16 : 41 cr saplings
• 3300 nurseries
• FD, DWMA, Agriculture, Horticulture, TW
depts

77. Telangana ku HARITHA HAARAM
• Forest area
• Protection, afforestation (blanks), rejuvenation
(degraded), SMC, plantation in RoFR areas
• Outside forest
• Avenue, institutional, Barren hills, Tank
foreshores, river banks, homestead & industrial,
agro-forestry, Smrithivanams, urban residential
areas

78. Best Practices- GREAT GREEN
WALL OF CHINA
• To raise 90 million acres of new forest
• A Band stretching 2800 miles across North
China
• Largest ecological restoration project in
the world
• Aim to arrest spread of Gobi desert and
“yellow dragons’(dust storms) in to Beijing
• Period 1978 till 2050

79. GREAT GREEN WALL OF
CHINA
• Criticism
• Monoculture, no biodiversity
• Non-native species, loss of native species
• Depletion of groundwater further
• Massive death of trees after initial growth

80. GREAT GREEN WALL OF
CHINA• Alternative
• Nurturing land by land itself (Jiang Gaoming,
ecologist), Ex: Inner Mongolia Hunshandak sandy
land project
• Prevent further degradation and allow natural
growth .
• Conservation International & China Centre for
Nature and Society- 100,000 sq. mile ecosystem
restoration from conifers to grasslands
• 12,000 acres restored so far
• 5 projects taken up in collaboration mode

81. THAR DESERT OF INDIA
• 2.34 million sq.kms area
• Spreading @ 12,000 ha /year
• Moving towards Delhi @ 0.5 kms per year
• CAZRI/AFRI took up ‘stabilization of shifting
sand dunes’, created micro-climates, tree-
screens and shelterbelts
• 649 kms of Indira Nahar canal runs in the
desert

82. THAR DESERT OF INDIA
• Central Arid Zone Research Institute,
Jodhpur
• Arid Forest Research Institute, Jodhpur
• To develop techniques for rain water harvesting
in arid areas.
• To develop technology for afforestation on stress
sites.
• Eco-stabilization of deserts with emphasis on
sand dune fixation.
• To develop techniques for production of high
quality planting material.

83. Social Forestry in Malaysia
• In the Peninsula, social forestry programmes are
designed to provide amenity through the
establishment of recreational parks within the
Permanent Forest Estate, urban planting of trees
for aesthetic values and the planting of traditional
fruit trees along forest fringes by the rural
communities, primarily to create local awareness
on the importance of forestry to their living
environment.
• In short, social forestry development programmes
will be most likely to succeed in areas where an
integrated approach is being taken towards rural
development; where these perceived needs are
being met and where forestry is included as part
of an overall development package.

84. Ideas for consideration
• Can Forest Department, TS alone handle
‘Haritha Haaram’?
• Collaboration with national organisations
like –CRIDA, CAZRI, AFRI
• Collaboration with International
organisations like- ICRISAT, Climate
Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA)
and Conservational International
• Set up a centre for dryland agriculture
research in Professor Jayashankar TSAU

85. Ideas for consideration
• Review the past efforts
• Wastelands development programme,GoI
• CIDA social forestry in our state
• consider
• Multi-culture, not monoculture
• Native species, not non-natives
• Multi-purpose plants, not non-grazing type
• Farming systems approach

88. Forests: Agro Forestry & Silvi
pasture

89. URBAN
ROOFTOP
GARDENS

91. Thank you.