Union Minister of State for Environment & Forest Jairam Ramesh has said that by the year 2013 India will have an exclusive satellite for monitoring forest fire. <br/><br/>He told it would also help in forest mappings. Sh. Ramesh was addressing the Public Consultation for National Mission for green India concluded in Dehradun today. He said that there was a need to strike balance between the opinion of the environmentalists and that of the developmental activists. <br/><br/>He told that the Hydro Power projects were essential to meet the demand for energy and such projects could not be done away with completely. He told keeping in view the public demand; his government had to stop a number of hydro projects in Uttarakhand.<br/> <br/>The Green India Mission is a National programme of central ministry of Environment and Forest, under which the forest cover has to be doubled to spread to twenty million hectare during the coming ten years. <br/><br/>To prepare a blue print, six consultations have to be undertaken in six towns of which two have already taken place in Pune and Guwahati. <br/><br/>The Dehradun consultation was third in a series. In today’s consultation representatives of Forest department, NGOs, Civil Activists and Teachers participated. <br/><br/>After these Parleys a document will be prepared to be produced before a Consultative Council of the Prime Minister on the issues of climate change. The Environment and Forest Minister Sh. Ramesh informed that the document will be prepared by the end of July.