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FOREST COVER-UP

n a country where the environment versus development debate plays on loop, the biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2021, released by the Union minister for environment, forests and climate change Bhupendra Yadav on January 13, should have been cause for much cheer. Going by its content, India has increased its forest cover by 1,540 sq. km over the previous assessment in 2019. “The focus of the Narendra Modi government is not just to conserve the forests quantitatively but

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