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No trees will be cut in the redevelopment process of seven settlements in South Delhi, said today the Union Minister, Hardeep Puri Singh, baduring that the green cover of the capital national would not be damaged
The Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs has stated that the agencies – CCNB and CPWD – charged with carrying out the redevelopment project have been invited to rework and modify plans for avoid the cutting of trees
. can be transplanted to another location and the NBCC has circulated a statement of interest for the acquisition of tree transplant / transplant equipment and to engage the services of trained professional entities to In this regard, according to an official statement.
maintained that the green cover in Delhi will not be damaged and that steps will be taken to further improve it. As noted earlier, no trees will be cut in the process of redeveloping settlements in Delhi, Puri said in a tweet.
Puri's comment came after a meeting on the tree cutting project with Delhi LG Anil Baijal, vice-president DDA Udai Pratap Singh, CMNC Anoop Kumar Mittal, CPWD CEO Abhai Sinha and the secretary of HUA DS Mishra, among others
I chaired a meeting of all stakeholders where NBCC / CPWD was asked to rework and review the plans. We will also go ahead with a compensation plan of planting 1 million trees in the next 3 months. According to another tweet, groups of citizens will be invited to suggest places of transplantation.
In the midst of a blame on the environment, Puri said that all authorizations had been granted by the Delhi Government Forest Department. from Delhi Minister of Environment Imran Hussain
I have now asked the concerned agencies (CPWD and NBCC) to rework the plans. I hope the Delhi government will follow this example in all future plans, he added.
The government had announced that it would cut more than 14,000 trees to build more than 25,000 apartments for government employees in seven South Delhi settlements. The proposal sparked strong criticism from environmental activists, politicians and citizens.
S Addressing reporters on the matter, Secretary of HUA D S Mishra said: No trees will be cut for the redevelopment of Gov't settlements. During the meeting, it was decided to plant more than one million trees, from a height of 8 to 12 feet, in different parts of Delhi, CCNB by planting 25,000; CPWD – 50,000; DDA – 10 lakh and DMRC – 20,000, according to an official statement.
The planting of trees will be completed in the next three months during the monsoon season and the trees will include fruit trees, flowers and other green trees.
In the meantime, Baijal has been advised to set up a group of experts / citizens concerned to interact on environmental issues and for other specific actions to be taken with regard to these settlements. , the release stated:
NBCC is redeveloping Sarojini Nagar, Netaji Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, while the Central Department of Public Works (CPWD) is managing the other four settlements in Kasturba Nagar, Thyagraj Nagar, Srinivaspuri and Mohammadpur .
A major protest erupted against the decision to touch the trees, with locals and activists launching their own "Chipko Movement", a forest conservation movement where people kissed trees to prevent them from falling into the trees. to be cut at Uttarakhand (then Uttar Pradesh) in the 1970s.
Rahul Gan, head of the Dhi Congress also struck at the BJP and PAA about the proposed felling of trees in the national capital for the redevelopment project and called to fight this madness.
The NBCC, said yesterday, that he ordered all his contractors not to cut trees in any of his redevelopment projects in South Delhi, in accordance with the commitment that he gave to the High Court of Delhi.
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