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Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Is this article some kind of a joke? BJP is only capable of mass destruction, corruption and classless politics, let alone bringing about any progress in the nation. Modis government is prepared to acquire more land to build the Vice-Presidents and the Prime-Ministers new house in the capital at a time when unemployment, corruption and gunda-raj is at its peak. Expecting anything from a party who makes a rioteer the Chief Minister of a state is either being naive or ignorant, either way making a fool out of yourself. Shekhar Gupta needs to improve his print houses standards and stop being such a diplomat all the time.
Not only multistorey buildings are being constructed on the hill slopes , even the sides of the Nalas (Khads) are encroached. I have seen these Khads, which were many meters wide are now look like narrow drains. What is more dangerous is that the water from thesec sceptic tanks constructed in these hill slope buildings, seeps into the earth, and has polluted the drinking water sources (We call these as Bawaris). In our childhood, we used to take clear water from these and other places where water used to trickle from the sides of hills. Now this water is colored and foul smelling. The British raised these hill stations as clean small towns, but our politicians and bureaucrats have turned these into commercial cities.
Saw a photograph of an unending stream of cars headed to a hill station, possibly Manali. People caught in traffic jams that last more than twelve hours. The British designed these pretty Jill stations because they did not have air conditioning. They are simply not designed or equipped to deal with industrial sized mass tourism. Water, sewage, solid waste management. Even the noxious fumes of automobiles that will overwhelm the scent of pines and Deodhar. We have a dynamic minister who chops scores of thousands of trees to construct four lane highways in ecologically fragile reasons where devout pilgrims should be trekking or moving on horseback.
Well said. But why should only Modi do this. Most of the points are state subjects. The Himalayan states and other similar states gain tremendously from tourism and fruit based agriculture. Why don’t these governments take the initiative. It applies to states ruled by BJP as well as by other paties.
Kerala is an excellent example of a state using its policies and resources to create clean, healthy and friendly environment to gain from tourism and related industries.
Absolutely agree.. Once Himalayan ecology is gone our plains would be desert. One is pained to see mountains being destroyed in name of road building with crude techniques and natural sources of water choked due to construction. We are on a road to hell.
Is this article some kind of a joke? BJP is only capable of mass destruction, corruption and classless politics, let alone bringing about any progress in the nation. Modis government is prepared to acquire more land to build the Vice-Presidents and the Prime-Ministers new house in the capital at a time when unemployment, corruption and gunda-raj is at its peak. Expecting anything from a party who makes a rioteer the Chief Minister of a state is either being naive or ignorant, either way making a fool out of yourself. Shekhar Gupta needs to improve his print houses standards and stop being such a diplomat all the time.
Agree with the article, but the word “sewerage” needs to be replaced by “sewage”. Sewerage refers to the plumbing, while sewage is the smelly stuff.
Not only multistorey buildings are being constructed on the hill slopes , even the sides of the Nalas (Khads) are encroached. I have seen these Khads, which were many meters wide are now look like narrow drains. What is more dangerous is that the water from thesec sceptic tanks constructed in these hill slope buildings, seeps into the earth, and has polluted the drinking water sources (We call these as Bawaris). In our childhood, we used to take clear water from these and other places where water used to trickle from the sides of hills. Now this water is colored and foul smelling. The British raised these hill stations as clean small towns, but our politicians and bureaucrats have turned these into commercial cities.
Saw a photograph of an unending stream of cars headed to a hill station, possibly Manali. People caught in traffic jams that last more than twelve hours. The British designed these pretty Jill stations because they did not have air conditioning. They are simply not designed or equipped to deal with industrial sized mass tourism. Water, sewage, solid waste management. Even the noxious fumes of automobiles that will overwhelm the scent of pines and Deodhar. We have a dynamic minister who chops scores of thousands of trees to construct four lane highways in ecologically fragile reasons where devout pilgrims should be trekking or moving on horseback.
… hill stations; … fragile regions
The beauty of autocorrection. Jill for hill 🙂
Well said. But why should only Modi do this. Most of the points are state subjects. The Himalayan states and other similar states gain tremendously from tourism and fruit based agriculture. Why don’t these governments take the initiative. It applies to states ruled by BJP as well as by other paties.
Kerala is an excellent example of a state using its policies and resources to create clean, healthy and friendly environment to gain from tourism and related industries.
Now J&K is getting ready to join the league. BJP is working over time.
Absolutely agree.. Once Himalayan ecology is gone our plains would be desert. One is pained to see mountains being destroyed in name of road building with crude techniques and natural sources of water choked due to construction. We are on a road to hell.
Hope someone in the government and bureaucracy who cares about these matters is reading this.