The Maharashtra Cabinet, on Thursday, approved the 'Maharashtra Gene Bank', a first-of-its-kind project in India. It aims to document native natural resources and conserve them with local communities to ensure biodiversity conservation and the inclusion of traditional knowledge.
The National Geographic Society has installed the "highest weather station in the world" on Mount Everest at an altitude of 8,830 meters to automatically measure various meteorological phenomena.
The pilot project envisages training for about 250 beneficiaries of 17 clusters of 17 districts selected from six states of India- Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Odisha.
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