Cutting off more than 1,000 trees for PM Modi’s visit to the western Odisha town of Balangir has created a new controversy. As a vacant land was required for the helipad, authorities have cleared 1.25 hectares of areas. The urban plantation programme suggested that the saplings planted on 2.25 hectares[Read More…]
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Delhi: 78,000 tress chopped in last decade
In the last decade, over 78,000 trees have been cut in the national capital, the Delhi Assembly was informed on Friday. In a written reply, Environment Minister Imran Hussain informed the House that in a compensatory plantation, about 10 lakh saplings have been planted in the city. “Between 2008 and 2018, the North Forest Department has chopped 16,235[Read More…]
