Objections to tree felling? Copy that
Objections to tree felling? Copy that
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Jul 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
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Out of 350 objections received, only nine to 10 are worded differently, the rest are a copy-paste job
The public notices issued by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on axing a total of 3,366 trees for Namma Metro’s Phase II-A and Phase II-B projects received 350 responses, a majority of them were objections to felling trees. That is good news. But that’s not all of it.
The BBMP, on behalf of the
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL), had issued three public notices from April, one of them in the middle of the lockdown, stating that 3,366 trees are coming in the way of the Metro projects. A total of 1,859 trees were identified for felling on the 19-km stretch (Phase-II A) between