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A good example of a PLANTED story in the newspaper can be seen on page 6 of the Navhind Times dated 26 November,2004, under the heading ENVIRONMENT BODY HAILS CM FOR PROTECTING TREES. The text of the last paragraph is straight from the response of Dr.Devender Pandey,Chief Conservator of Forests to ToI's Goa Plus a few months back regarding the self same Raintrees. I had rebutted his statement in the same issue. I STAND BY WHAT I SAID THEN. Would someone be kind enough to tell me who are the Executive Committee members[ ad hoc or otherwise ] of the "Goa Chapter" of the INDIAN ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION ...and where this chapter of the association functions.[ One clue is there in the pressnote," the IEA will plant 300 to 400 trees *in due course of time* in consultation with the Corporation of Panaji and the Department of Forests". that is as vague as the "officialese" language enables one to be.] Once I have that, we can together find out what they plan to do. There is nothing that it has been known to do thus far...except for the solitary pressnote in the Govt.[ any government ] propaganda mouthpiece...the NT. Viva Goa. Miguel
