Shimla, Aug. 26 -- The Himachal Pradesh government through State Remote Sensing Cell is actively working on creation of a state-level glacier registry as the overall area under glaciers has reduced, indicating a gradual shrinkage of glaciers.

This was shared by the state government in reply to the question raised by Dharamshala MLA Sudhir Sharma during the ongoing monsoon session on Monday. He sought the government's response on what policy/plan is the government adopting to save the glaciers keeping in mind changing climatic conditions and has the government conducted any study on this.

The reply that was tabled in the House through CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday said that the state government, through the State Remote Sensing Cel...