Also read: Green concerns over Metro Phase-4 workForest department officials said the trenching work starts from the Sawai Man Singh Dwar and goes up to the AEPTA. It was found that during the trenching work, a total of 45 trees were damaged. The notice also details the variety of trees damaged, including full grown native trees, such as gular, semal, bargad, shehtut, neem and peepal. Carrying out any kind of construction activity in a ‘deemed’ forest amounts to violation of the FCA, 1980. “Firstly, no construction activities must be carried out in a tree line or in this case of a deemed forest land.

Source: Hindustan Times August 27, 2020 07:43 UTC