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Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
1. Uttarakhand, the birthplace of India's major rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna and home to the Himalayan ranges, is rapidly losing its forest land to commercial activities. Data of over 70% forest land, has lost 50000 hectares (ha) of its forest to various development activities in the past 20 years.
2.The top six activities for which around 21207 hectares of forest land in the state has been diverted are mining, water pipelines and irrigation. The highest amount of forest cover has been lost to mining (8760 ha) followed by road construction (7539 ha), power distribution lines (2332 ha) and hydropower plants (2295 ha).Other smaller activities together claimed 20,998 hectares of forest cover. The other activities comprise laying down of optical fibre, railways, defence work, construction of buildings etc.
3. A district-wise analysis (from November 2000 to March 2020) shows that Dehradun (21,303 ha) lost the maximum forest area, followed by Haridwar which lost 6826 hectares, Chamoli (3636 ha), Tehri(2457 ha) and Pithoraparh (2,451 ha). This diversion of forest land for commercial activities is alarming when seen in the backdrop of the latest report of the forest survey of India (2019).
4. Doon-based environmentalist Anil Joshi said, "How can we ask for green bonus from the centre when we are not sensitive about our green cover?" Uttarakhand's forest cover is spread over around 38000 sq km, which is 70% of the state's geographical area. It has 112 species of trees 73 species of shrubs and 94 species of herbs, all of which, scientist say, are facing the heat of development activities.
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
1. Uttarakhand, the birthplace of India's major rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna and home to the Himalayan ranges, is rapidly losing its forest land to commercial activities. Data of over 70% forest land, has lost 50000 hectares (ha) of its forest to various development activities in the past 20 years.
2.The top six activities for which around 21207 hectares of forest land in the state has been diverted are mining, water pipelines and irrigation. The highest amount of forest cover has been lost to mining (8760 ha) followed by road construction (7539 ha), power distribution lines (2332 ha) and hydropower plants (2295 ha).Other smaller activities together claimed 20,998 hectares of forest cover. The other activities comprise laying down of optical fibre, railways, defence work, construction of buildings etc.
3. A district-wise analysis (from November 2000 to March 2020) shows that Dehradun (21,303 ha) lost the maximum forest area, followed by Haridwar which lost 6826 hectares, Chamoli (3636 ha), Tehri(2457 ha) and Pithoraparh (2,451 ha). This diversion of forest land for commercial activities is alarming when seen in the backdrop of the latest report of the forest survey of India (2019).
4. Doon-based environmentalist Anil Joshi said, "How can we ask for green bonus from the centre when we are not sensitive about our green cover?" Uttarakhand's forest cover is spread over around 38000 sq km, which is 70% of the state's geographical area. It has 112 species of trees 73 species of shrubs and 94 species of herbs, all of which, scientist say, are facing the heat of development activities.
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