SC mulls setting up panel to vet permission for felling trees in Delhi

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday proposed to set up a committee of experts and said it would direct that the permission granted for felling of trees in Delhi would not be implemented without the panel's nod. SC mulls setting up panel to vet permission for felling trees in Delhi Referring to the depleting tree cover in the national capital, the apex court observed the committee of experts would look into the permission granted by the tree authority and the tree officers appointed under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994. Another issue the bench wanted to examine in the light of the diminishing tree cover was whether a body experts could be constituted to look into the permission granted for tree felling and without whose permission nobody would fell trees. The bench said a similar order was passed for Bengaluru, where if the tree authority granted permission for felling trees, it went to a body of experts to look into it.