when and why did the forest around the railway track starts disappearing very fast. explain
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The forest around the railway track start disappering very fast because due to increase in poppulation the need of people increase and due to technology railway tracks were formed around the forest......
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The railway system expanded quickly from the 1860s. With the length of the railway tracks expanding a large number of trees were chopped
EXPLANATION:
- A new demand was created by the spreading of railways from the 1850s. For colonial trade and the movement of imperial troops, railways were essential.
- For locomotives to run, wood was necessary as fuel to build railway lines sleepers which were essential for keeping the tracks together. As railways expanded through India, more and more trees have been cut down.
- In the 1850s 35,000 trees in the Madras Presidency alone were cut down annually for sleepers.
- The government had awarded individuals contracts to provide the requisite numbers. These entrepreneurs began to indiscriminately cut trees. The railway track forests quickly began to disappear.
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