Jammu, Nov. 1 -- Share Tweet Share Anuj Kumar Verma Jammu and Kashmir is today witnessing rapid environmental degradation alongside a decline in political leadership. Aggressive development is proceeding with little visible effort towards environmental mitigation, and its consequences are beginning to emerge across the region's valleys and mountain slopes. Distances are being shortened and connectivity is improving remarkably. However, all this is coming at a significant cost to the environment. Neither the implementing agencies nor the Union Territory government appears to have a concrete mitigation plan for restoring the ecology damaged by the extensive construction of new road networks, ring roads and national highway projects. The pol...