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250 brick kilns eating over 8000 green firewood trucks [1]

By Gopal Sharma

JAMMU, Dec 26: Nearly 250 brick kilns in Kathua, Jammu and Samba districts of the Jammu region are consuming more than eight thousand trucks of green felled fire wood every year as the nexus of green wood smugglers and the key officials in the Forest and Revenue departments was galore in the region.

Despite the blanket ban on the green felling by the Supreme Court of India, t

Publication Date: 
27/12/2010
Daily Excelsior (Jammu) [2]
Tags:
Deforestation [3], Timber Smuggling [4], Kathua (D) [5], Jammu (D) [6]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/timber-smuggling
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kathua-d
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jammu-d