Trees felled with due permission: Delhi Metro to NGT
25 Oct 2013 5:09 AM IST
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has refuted before the National Green Tribunal the allegation of ‘avoidable felling of 700 trees’ for construction of its line from Mundka in Delhi to City Park in Bahadurgarh, Haryana as part of phase III.
‘DMRC has taken action following the due procedure of law and also to meet the project target date strictly as per the tree cutting permission granted by the forest department,’ DMRC said in its reply to a petition filed before the NGT against felling of trees.
In its reply filed before a bench headed by justice P Jyothimani, DMRC said, ‘The Department of Forests and Wildlife had granted it the permission to fell trees in 2013 and the work is being executed as per the sanction.’
It also submitted that the Ministry of Urban Development had on 11 September, 2012, conveyed sanction of the President to extend existing Inderlok-Mundka corridor upto Bahadurgarh, which has a length of 11.182 kms and is scheduled to be completed by 31 March, 2016.
‘DMRC has taken action following the due procedure of law and also to meet the project target date strictly as per the tree cutting permission granted by the forest department,’ DMRC said in its reply to a petition filed before the NGT against felling of trees.
In its reply filed before a bench headed by justice P Jyothimani, DMRC said, ‘The Department of Forests and Wildlife had granted it the permission to fell trees in 2013 and the work is being executed as per the sanction.’
It also submitted that the Ministry of Urban Development had on 11 September, 2012, conveyed sanction of the President to extend existing Inderlok-Mundka corridor upto Bahadurgarh, which has a length of 11.182 kms and is scheduled to be completed by 31 March, 2016.
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