Letter to BS: Gurugram at the brink of turning into a concrete jungle

Politicians and bureaucrats will - only for some time of course - continue to survive in their cocoons before moving to their fallback options in the Alps or other such places

Your editorial “Protect the Aravalis” (March 7) rightly spells out the grave dangers of the amendment to the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA). Especially in case of the small state of Haryana the “death warrant for the Aravali Hills” is truly a death warrant for the state. Already enjoying the dubious distinction of having “the lowest forest cover in the country at a suicidal 3.59 per cent” losing even one percentage point more would be a heinous crime against the people of the state. What could be a bigger tragedy than deliberately allowing the Thar desert to come closer to