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    The document discusses the expansion of India's railway network in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As more tracks were laid, reaching over 765,000 km by 1946, the demand for wooden sleepers to lay the tracks increased dramatically. Contractors supplying sleepers began indiscriminately cutting down trees near railway tracks, resulting in large-scale deforestation around railway forests to meet the growing needs of the expanding railway system.

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    The document discusses the expansion of India's railway network in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As more tracks were laid, reaching over 765,000 km by 1946, the demand for wooden sleepers to lay the tracks increased dramatically. Contractors supplying sleepers began indiscriminately cutting down trees near railway tracks, resulting in large-scale deforestation around railway forests to meet the growing needs of the expanding railway system.

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    The document discusses the expansion of India's railway network in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As more tracks were laid, reaching over 765,000 km by 1946, the demand for wooden sleepers to lay the tracks increased dramatically. Contractors supplying sleepers began indiscriminately cutting down trees near railway tracks, resulting in large-scale deforestation around railway forests to meet the growing needs of the expanding railway system.

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    Sleepers on the

    tracks
     The railway network expanded rapidly.

     By 1890,about 25,500 km of track had been laid.

     In 1946,the length of the tracks had increased to over


    765,000 km.
    A larger and larger number of trees were felled.
    In the Madras presidency alone,35,000 trees were being
    cut annually just for sleepers.
     The government gave out contracts to individuals to
    supply the required quantity.

     These contractors began cutting trees indiscriminately.


    Forest around the railway tracks fast started
    disappearing.

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