After recent cloud burst, flash floods, landslides and sinking of hills in the state, various environmental groups have urged Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to come out with a new environmental guidelines for Himachal Pradesh so that such natural disasters are not repeated in the future.

Talking to reporters here today KB Ralhan, Subhash Sharma and Suresh Kumar said for the past five years cloudbursts were a common occurrence in Himalayan regions with extreme weather events causing heavy destruction.

A recent cloudburst in the past two months followed by flash floods took a toll of 300 lives, drowned nearly 25 villages and damaged over 1,000 roads and other infrastructure in the state, they said.

Keeping in view the gravity of destruction, the government should focus on the imple

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