Ludhiana: Residents in block E of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar have complained against the ‘brutal’ pruning of trees in parks as well along roadside in the locality by a private contractor hired by the Ludhiana Improvement Trust for the purpose. The residents rued that it takes a long time for the trees to grow and if pruning would be done so mercilessly, then how these will grow properly in future. Already, the city’ green cover is shrinking like anything and such kind of attitude will create more problems.
A resident of the area, Arvind Sharma, while complaining said, “Over a month ago similar kind of activity had been started in the area and trees were being pruned badly. When we raised the matter with LIT officials, even they had expressed ignorance about the pruning and claimed that they were yet to hire a contractor for the job. Any how, now, when the job has been allocated to a contractor, even then similar practice was going on in the area.” He said they had request