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Patiala, October 15
An assistant professor at the Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences at Punjabi University has bagged a research project on moths to update their taxonomic status (naming, defining and classification) from Indian Himalayas.
The research project
has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change under the All-India Coordinated Project scheme.
Dr Amritpal Singh Kaleka has received a grant of Rs 22.46 lakh to carry out a research for three years initially.
He said he had been working on Indian species of moths and had completed research projects sanctioned by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the UGC.
He had surveyed North-Western and North-Eastern states and reported more than 70 species of moths new to science, he added.
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