In a reply to a query by Banda-based activist Kuldeep Shukla, senior manager of the state Forest Department, Atul Asthana, said that the UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) has cut 1,89,036 trees for the project.
Even as Lucknow remains among the ten most polluted cities in the country, the state government is preparing to cut down 63,799 trees along the Gomti river for the Defence Expo, scheduled to be held in February next year.
The Supreme Court on Monday restrained authorities from cutting any more trees in Mumbai's Aarey to set up a Metro car shed. A special bench comprising justices Arun Mishra and Ashok Bhushan said it will have to examine the entire thing and posted the matter for hearing on October 21 before its forest bench.
The Central government ministry of climate change doesn't need to exist or speak about plastic pollution when Mumbai Metro 3 is senselessly destroying Aarey, Mumbai's green lung, Aaditya Thackeray said.
On Friday, the Bombay High Court had cancelled four petitions challenging cutting of trees at Aarey Colony for the metro car shed, which was followed by the process to raze the trees.
On Friday, the Bombay High Court had cancelled four petitions challenging cutting of trees at Aarey Colony for the metro car shed, which was followed by the process to raze the trees.
A division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre was hearing a petition filed by an environmental activist, Zoru Bathena, challenging the Tree Authority's approval given on August 29 for felling of the trees for the Metro car shed.
Lucknow : A 58-year-old woman was hacked to death in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur town when she protested the felling of trees in the area, police said Monday.The incident took place Sunday in Nauli village, 335
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