Not any way Rajesh ji, the way of life changes if there are facilities.
imagine from Gulmarg (8000') to Kongdor (near Khillenmarg 10000'), the
first stop of Gandola, the walk is barely 4-5 km, but you find not one
percent of people take this path, they prefer to pay Rs. 500/- and spend
two to three hours in waiting lines, rather than walking for one hour for
free.
That reminds me of the period of early seventies when
environmentalists had become very active world over. Reading books on
environment (a term which had become a fashion then), being a student I was
always wondering what is the difference between an ecologist (my field also
being partly ecology partly taxonomy, phytosociology to be precise), till I
read from a book "an environmentalist is one who highlights the issues of
damages to environment like pollution, deforestation, topography damages,
etc. and an ecologist is one who finds balance between the environmental
losses and development". I wish and hope we have enough ecologists (and
geologists) to take care of environment during development.
There are always positive and negative aspects of life, I tend to
choose the former, unless latter outweighs.
--
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> Rajesh Ji and All,
>
> I had been to the place for the first time this year, lot of people from
> all over country were waking up a difficult terrain...definitely a huge lot
> of people there would have preferred some easier way to go up, if possible.
> Chopper services are quite unaffordable, mules very risky sometimes....if
> ropeway is installed, in my opinion, this will hardly affect the vegetation
> for a long term...people who can go on foot will be free to move...this
> will rather reduce the burden on the trek way except at the halt stations
> of the ropeway...thanks for the information Rajesh ji...
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dr. Nidhan Singh
> Assisstant Professor
> Department of Botany
> I.B. (PG) College
> Panipat-132103 Haryana
> Ph.: 09416371227
>
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