State hosts jumbo forest meet, but skips vital issues

  • 16/05/2003

  • 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.