Rajasthan prohibits felling of khejri trees after 11-day protests

The Bharatiya Janata Party authorities successful Rajasthan has enforced a prohibition connected the felling of khejri trees pursuing an 11-day-long agitation by saints and Bishnoi assemblage members successful Bikaner. A Bill for histrion extortion volition besides beryllium introduced during the ongoing fund league of the State Assembly.

Khejri, taxonomically classified arsenic Prosopis cineraria, is the authoritative State histrion of Rajasthan, designated successful presumption of its immense worth to the godforsaken ecosystem and agrarian economy. The agitation had started aft the alleged wide felling of khejri for star powerfulness projects coming up successful occidental parts of the State.

The indefinite sit-in protestation extracurricular the Bishnoi Dharamshala successful Bikaner was called disconnected aft the State authorities issued a circular to halt the felling of khejri. The agitation received enactment from crossed the governmental spectrum, with erstwhile Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot and Vasundhara Raje arsenic good arsenic respective Congress and BJP leaders joining the demand.

Minister of State K.K. Bishnoi had earlier attempted to get the agitation withdrawn by assuring a prohibition constricted to Bikaner and Jodhpur divisions. As the protesters rejected the partial measure, a delegation led by Mr. Bishnoi visited the agitation tract and handed implicit an authoritative bid of the Revenue Department addressed to each District Collectors.

The bid explicitly stated that the felling of khejri trees would stay prohibited passim the State until a caller instrumentality comes into unit to support them. Swami Sachchidanand, who led the agitation, announced the protest’s suspension with a informing that the question would resume if the instrumentality failed to bespeak nationalist sentiment.

Replying to the question of acknowledgment to the Governor’s address, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma earlier stated successful the Assembly that a instrumentality would beryllium enacted to support the khejri tree. He said a Bill to this effect would beryllium brought successful the House erstwhile the process for identifying finer aspects of the projected authorities was completed. (EOM)