Abstract :
The Smart City mission of Jabalpur intends to promote adoption with basic infrastructure to give a decent quality
of life, a clean and sustainable environment through application of smart solutions where environment disturbed through anthropogenic activities. This smart city mission with “Clean Narmada, Green Jabalpur” intends to promote adoption in environment with basic infrastructure to give a decent quality of life. Biodiversity encompasses the variety of all life on earth. Jabalpur is major city of Madhya Pradesh in India which is rich is biodiversity. The present study was carried out from January 2014 to December 2016. The whole Narmada valley of Jabalpur region including river, forest, grassland and urban area were selected as study site for the collection of sample. In the study total 101 Bioindicator species of various classes were recorded viz., Odonata 37 species (7 Families), Lepidoptera 25 Species (5 Families), Spiders 26 Species (10 Families) and Mollusca 13 Species (2 Class). This study aimed in contributing to plane of biodiversity restoration in studied region and development of management strategies so as to ensure sustenance of all the recorded species and ecosystem services derived from them. The content of this paper will be useful step for future studies.
Author Name : Dr. Veena Choubey, Arjun Shukla2 & Shivani Rai
Keywords: Narmada, Fauna, Diversity, Pollution, Biomarker.
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