IT is truly a shame that we have failed to act for years – if not decades – on all the warnings that one of our pristine hill stations will decline into a humiliating disaster.
The several media and expert reports on the precarious safety situation, caused by unconstrained and unethical, and even illegal land clearing, agricultural activities, dumping and other practices, and the deadly tragedies that have occurred, over the years, seem to have resulted in little action to prevent what has become a mortifying catastrophe.