MS Dhoni under fire from students on environmental issue

Under fire for his team's debacle in the Twenty20 World Cup, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been criticised by students of a West Sikkim school for endorsing potato chips which uses non bio-degradable wrappers.

Students of the Government Secondary School at Yuksom in West Sikkim have written to Dhoni with a wrapper stapled to it to draw his attention how the product was adversely affecting the ecology of the state.

While participating in a cleanliness drive from Yuksom to Dzongri last month, the students had come across wrappers of the potato chips comprising 47 per cent of the non bio-degradable waste in the state.

"Please come and see for yourself. Should not we aspire to keep our pristine environment unpolluted?" the students wrote seeking his cooperation in their endeavour to keep the environment clean.

The students also appealed to Dhoni to consider making some arrangement to collect the wrappers for disposal.

They, however, expressed their adulation of the cricketer and urged him to visit their school with the national team to play a cricket match with them.

"We will take you on a guided tour of the rich biodiversity of Yuksom region," the students said.