Budget boost to books on national parks

PUNE: Books on wildlife sanctuaries and national parks of the western region, which are in the pipeline, should now come out soon, says Botanical Survey of India joint director P G Divakar.
Divakar was reacting to the Rs 15-crore allocation each made in the Union Budget presented on Monday to the Botanical Survey of India (BSI), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Geological Survey of India (GSI).
Elaborating further, Divakar said that Pune is the BSI headquarters for the western region including Maharashtra, Daman and Diu, Goa and Karnataka. "We have already completed work on the flora of the districts and states of the western region. In the pipeline are books on the wildlife sanctuaries and national parks of the western circle. I think this allocation will help this project."
On the other hand, scientists at the ZSI and the GSI declined to comment as they needed to reflect on the specifics of the budgetary allocation.