•-While appreciating your concern is exposing this very important issue, I am totally in support of the popular opinion of the common man that teak plantations in inhabited areas should be removed without economic or concern for forest cover. This plant is foreign to our land and many physicians have pinpointed its ill effects on health as the common cause of Asthma and Skin Disease. Forest Department deals with Botany and has nothing to do with its ill effects on the Biological System of the human body. Hence, if Teak has to be protected as contributory to forest cover, it should be planted in forest areas and not within the vicinity of inhabited Townships and villages. Kudos to all Town and Village Councils who are concerned for human existence.
(K. Elias Lotha)
(K. Elias Lotha)
