Business Standard: Forests are disappearing in Himachal Pradesh! (April 22 is Earth Day)

Shimla, April 22 (IANS) Green activists have long protested the hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been gobbling up forests and drying up water channels. Now a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) too backs the claims of the greens. Compensatory afforestation was highly deficient, as 58 percent of the 12 surveyed […]

The Hindu:Diversion of Himachal forest land: Activists, tribals see red

April 2,2013 The government does it purely on the strength of a certificate issued by the district administration Even as the recent affidavit submitted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) before the Supreme Court in the Vedanta case has caused dismay among tribal communities and activists for the dilution of its stand […]