What kinds of forests are remaining now?
The remaining forests are partly under the jurisdiction of the forest department and partly under van panchayats as community forests. A few forests are surviving today and they are of a degraded kind. Sincere government servants should be appointed in the forestry department. At present they are destroying the forests instead of protecting and developing them. Some days ago the forests caught fire. Almost all the forests in Uttarkashi Distt, were burning. Last June at many places in Tehri Garhwal District forests were burning. The forest department did not pay heed at all. If a few attempts were made to put out the fires they were of no avail. All the forests burnt down to ashes. That’s why the need for devoted and sincere government servants arises.
