In 6 years, forest land the size of Nagaland diverted

Vijay Ramesh, a PhD student at Columbia University, has analysed 48,000 clearance proposals using the R programming language. He sourced the forest clearance data from the Union environment ministry’s Parivesh website, which has details of all clearances divided into two sections—before 2014 and after 2014.

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