‘MMRCL’s tally of additional 177 trees in Aarey Colony an undercount’
Hindustan TimesMumbai: With the Supreme Court having cleared the way for the Mumbai Metropolitan Rail Corporation to cut additional trees in Aarey Colony’s Prajapurpada village, 177 trees will soon be felled for creating a shunting area for Metro-3 trains, of which 53 will be transplanted and 124 will be cut down permanently. ‘MMRCL’s tally of additional 177 trees in Aarey Colony an undercount’ Over multiple visits to the project site this month, Hindustan Times observed more than two dozen wooden trees in the alignment of the shunting neck, which have not been numbered. HT did not record the numbers of non-wooden trees that do not fall under the definition of “tree” under the Maharashtra Tree Act, though multiple specimens of these are also present on the site. It is also clear from the photographs that these unnumbered trees clearly fall within the definition of “tree” under the Tree Act and the same cannot be felled/transplanted without the permission of the Tree Authority.” On Monday, April 17, the Supreme Court came down hard on MMRCL for attempting to “overreach” its orders in the matter, after the MMRCL sought permissions to fell more than the permitted 84 trees.
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