ocr: Deforestation is one of India's most pressing environmental problems. Unplannedindustrial development and the pressule for more agricultural land have felled once lush tree cover and less than 11% of original forest cover remains. The effect has been: a sharp rise 1 insoil erosion, the siltingup - of dams, and landslides. India experienced: its worst environmental accident in 1984, when an explosion at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopalledto an - escape oflethal gases. Over 2,000 died.
