Instead of releasing the roadside trees choking in tar, tiles or cement, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is chopping them off one by one. A 40-year-old neem tree trapped in cement on Ram Nagar - Shankar Nagar road was chopped off on Tuesday afternoon.
The workers on the site said NMC had ordered them to fell the tree as it was dead and cite the reason of danger to life and property from it. "It's a baseless reason. A dead tree doesn't ever fall," said Shrikant Deshpande, who has been fighting for the cause of the green cover in Nagpur.
He further said that such action by NMC is to do away with the evidence against it in the matter of choking trees due to tarring and cementing around them. "NMC is yet to act on the one and a half year old affidavit in which they promised to clear the tarring around roadside trees. They haven't done anything to save them, and now as the trees are dying, they are chopping them off," he said.
Kaustav Chatterjee of Green Vigil who was present at the site said that the tree was completely choked due to cementing around which caused it to decay. "When the main trunk was cut, we saw a lot of insects coming out of the trunk and a number of holes in it. The tree died a slow and painful death," he said.
Choked trees a deprived of water and nutrients. The roots are deprived of aeration and growth is stunted. As the roots don't grow normally, the tree doesn't get sufficient nutrients and starts to die. NB Shrikhande, superintendent garden department, first expressed his ignorance about the incident and then was unavailable for comment. "The greenery of the city is greatly endangered due to killing of the trees due to choking. Earlier, trees were felled for Integrated Roads Development Programme (IRDP) and now this," said Deshpande.
A few days back TOI had highlighted how the NMC, not learning from its mistake, was still trapping trees in tar or tiles during road repairs. Deshpande said that NMC had no will to rectify this. "The process of death of a tree is a long one and NMC has enough time for saving the trees. Now, marking them as dead, they will just cut them down and all this timber will go to the tradFull-service custom manufacturer of precision plastic injection mold,ers," he said.
The workers on the site said NMC had ordered them to fell the tree as it was dead and cite the reason of danger to life and property from it. "It's a baseless reason. A dead tree doesn't ever fall," said Shrikant Deshpande, who has been fighting for the cause of the green cover in Nagpur.
He further said that such action by NMC is to do away with the evidence against it in the matter of choking trees due to tarring and cementing around them. "NMC is yet to act on the one and a half year old affidavit in which they promised to clear the tarring around roadside trees. They haven't done anything to save them, and now as the trees are dying, they are chopping them off," he said.
Kaustav Chatterjee of Green Vigil who was present at the site said that the tree was completely choked due to cementing around which caused it to decay. "When the main trunk was cut, we saw a lot of insects coming out of the trunk and a number of holes in it. The tree died a slow and painful death," he said.
Choked trees a deprived of water and nutrients. The roots are deprived of aeration and growth is stunted. As the roots don't grow normally, the tree doesn't get sufficient nutrients and starts to die. NB Shrikhande, superintendent garden department, first expressed his ignorance about the incident and then was unavailable for comment. "The greenery of the city is greatly endangered due to killing of the trees due to choking. Earlier, trees were felled for Integrated Roads Development Programme (IRDP) and now this," said Deshpande.
A few days back TOI had highlighted how the NMC, not learning from its mistake, was still trapping trees in tar or tiles during road repairs. Deshpande said that NMC had no will to rectify this. "The process of death of a tree is a long one and NMC has enough time for saving the trees. Now, marking them as dead, they will just cut them down and all this timber will go to the tradFull-service custom manufacturer of precision plastic injection mold,ers," he said.
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