Sunday, June 12, 2011

ENVIRONMENT, DEFORESTATION: Minister's open loot in J&K

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10 Jun 2011, 1346 hrs IST.

Photo Courtesy:  jkforestadm.nic.in

There is open looting of timber going on in Jammu & Kashmir right under Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's nose and it is being done by his own minister. In a times now expose, a forester spills the beans on how the state's forest minister Mian Altaf is misusing his power, looting a precious natural resource. What's shocking is that he is apparently not the first minister to do this. 

Reporter: Can you tell us who is the forester for compartments 30-35 and so on?

Abdul Ghani: It's me. Looks, if he is the forest guard and tree felling is going on he has to report to me. Then i will go for inspection. But this phenomenon of tree felling by ministers is something that the world knows about. It has no end and nothing can be done about it.

Look I will tell you, when Farooq Abdullah goes to Forest Minister Mian Altaf's place and walks over those timber logs, has he ever told him where he got the wood from. It's a simple thing.

Reporter: Why dont you tell the police about it? When you ask these timber cutters from where they are taking it what do they say? 

Hope this irresponsible deforestation is stopped!

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