AU cuts down trees at engineering college campus for PM’s meeting
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AU cuts down trees at engineering college campus for PM’s meeting

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Andhra University began cutting and uprooting scores of trees at its Engineering College grounds here on Friday to create more space for a public meeting to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 12. “We have asked the forest department to prune and cut trees and shift some of them to other places, for security reasons,’’ said Registrar Prof Krishna Mohan. When contacted for comments, district forest officer Ananth Shankar said he had received an application from AU to make the ground suitable for the PM’s meeting on the Engineering College grounds. Earlier, Jana Sena leader and GVMC corporator PLN Murthy Yadav filed a writ in the high court, seeking action against AU for cutting down the trees and filling water bodies in an extent of 70 acres in the ground opposite to the engineering college.

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Felling of 234 trees on century-old college campus distresses many in Kashmir
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Felling of 234 trees on century-old college campus distresses many in Kashmir

The Hindu  

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