Activist Ajay Dubey expresses concern on rampant tree felling

Rampant felling of teak trees is being carried out by wood mafia in and around Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary (RWS), which happens to be close to the assembly constituency - Budhni - of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, activist Ajay Dubey alleged.
"Teak trees are being slaughtered at the drop of a hat in an around RWS spread over Raisen and Sehore districts close to Bhopal. The sanctuary also spread over Sehore that happens to the home district of Chouhan," an NGO - Transparency International India board member Dubey told reporters here.
To buttress his claim, secretary of NGO - Prayatna working for tiger conservation, Dubey flashed some photographs showing trees being felled and transported.

He said that teak wood smugglers and mafia were slaughtering a huge number of trees and making crores of rupees unchecked.
The famous activist said that the central government had given its nod to turn RWS into a tiger reserve, in 2008. But on its part, he said the state government was sitting tight over the issue due to reason best known to it.