DNA:
Mumbai: Friday, 06 March 2015.
A reply to an
RTI revealed that Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chopped 1,802 trees
between April 2014 and February 2015 across south and north-west Mumbai.
The RTI was
filed a month ago by a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator. The reply
also showed a lack of reasons given by the civic body for cutting the trees.
Around 1, 336
trees were axed between April 2012 and March 2013, while 721 trees were axed in
2013-14. "The numbers are shocking. I had raised this issue with the
Municipal Commissioner in the past, however, to no avail. The BMC continues not
act on such vital environmental issues," said Abbas Kapasi, member of Tree
Authority, BMC.
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