Don't cut trees, take gas lines

Forest department's latest strategy to protect state's fast depleting green cover is to provide cooking gas connections to tribals who chop trees for firewood In its bid to protect the state's green cover, which has been depleting at a brisk rate, the State Forest Department is mulling over a few projects it thinks will help bring down the rate of deforestation. The projectsOne such pilot project the department is keen on introducing is providing the forest dwellers with cooking gas. According to the officials, these

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