SC tree order

  • 24/02/2000

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

A green blow in Dhumal's face: The Supreme Court order restraining the Himachal Pradesh Government from implementing its controversial decision to allow felling of trees has come as a big embarrassment for the Dhumal ministry. While environmentalists had raised a storm over the decision, which, they pointed out, would spell doom for the state's forest, the experts had raised doubts regarding the legality of the proposal.