State hosts jumbo forest meet, but skips vital issues
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16/05/2003
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Indian Express (Mumbai)
Trust the cash-strapped Maharashtra State government to do what it has planned for the next two days. Apart from enormous administrative flux, it wil spend lakhs on a jumbo conclave of 130 top forest officials where many of the issues slted for discussion may not be directly related to forest protection.The 12-point agenda separately mentions illicit tree-felliing and crimes related to wildlife, but doesn't explicitly mention the composite issue of forest protection.