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Good morning, Express Investigation The India leg of the global investigation, ‘Deforestation Inc’, has found that the story of India’s forests is not just about large-scale deforestation or illegal logging, it’s also about the lack of official transparency on the status of the forest itself. The Indian Express accessed and cross-checked a part of the geo-referenced forest cover data which the government, since the 1980s, has refused to share with the media. We found that the bungalows of ministers and senior officers, even the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) building in Lutyen’s Delhi, are “forest” in the official forest cover...
