NEW DELHI: India's largest forest cover -- located in the Himalayan states -- is under threat. The ominous warning may sound a bit like IPCC
glacier reports but this time the warning has been sounded by a home-grown, local MP from Uttarakhand.
In a letter written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, Almora MP Pradeep Tamta has brought to light largescale deforestation afflicting the Himalayan states not the least due to firewood being collected for cooking and heating.
Voicing a demand for much enhanced LPG supply in these states, Tamta has gone knocking at the doors of Delhi's powers that be to include Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir within the purview of the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin LPG Vitrak Yojna (RGGVY).
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