Indian glaciers melting at 5-20 meter rate annually
According to studies carried out by institutions like ISRO, most Indian glaciers are melting at a rate of 5-20 metres per year, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said. Stating that the rate of melting is not uniform for all glaciers, Dave added that a study was carried out on 82 glaciers from 1968 to 2006 using remote sensing data.