Answer:
(i) As early as the 1850s, in the Madras Presidency alone 35,000 trees were being cut annually for sleepers. (ii) The government gave out contracts to individuals to supply the required quantities. (iii) These contractors began cutting trees indiscriminately. Forests around the railway tracks started disappearing fast.
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