Burn a leaf hundreds of yards away and I can smell it immediately. My nose blocks up, my eyes water, nothing makes me feel worse. In 1989 it was one of the first things that the Environment Ministry banned. Unfortunately, even now it is fairly common to see smouldering heaps of leaves in every city and town by government gardeners, municipal sweepers and house owners themselves in the corners of arks and at the ends of roads. In farms this is extremely common – farmers don’t just burn their own leaves but they burn the fallen leaves on the edges of their farms which come down from trees owned by the government. This unmonitored burning usually kills the roadside trees.
The forest departments set fire routinely to their forests in the name of leaf burning. This not only kills all he small animals and insects, it is 70% of the reasons for all the raging forest fires in the country that takes thousands of acres of forest at a time. In my own constituency Pilibhit, I spent most of my time in summer putting out forest fires started by the forest rangers. They remain unconcerned by the fact that all the saplings die and the wild boar, monkeys and neelgai come into the fields because their food has been burnt. Don’t burn leaves. And don’t let others do it. It is a very wasteful and dangerous practice.
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