NGT also orders board to furnish details of replacement of trees in indore.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday ordered the Indore Development Authority (IDA) to furnish details of replacement of trees carried out in Indore including number, area and survival rate. The board has also been asked provide the details of staff entrusted with the responsibility of supervising the plantation in the city.
If required, IDA and the Collector in consultation with the officers of the forest department should take additional measures to ensure 100% survival of the trees, ordered the court.
It was also stated in the order that no fully grown trees shall be cut unless there is no alternative and it is inevitable in the interest of development works being undertaken in Indore which has been declared as a critically polluted area.
The development plans prepared for such projects shall be placed for the perusal of NGT before the next hearing of the case.
In the order dated January 24, NGT said that such plans should also indicate the number of existing standing trees with information regarding species and whether it is feasible to translocate the trees. If any tree is creating major hindrance in the development work, the same should be identified and marked separately, the court said.
It was further stated in the order that the total number of such trees shall be enumerated species-wise and due procedure should be followed in getting permission from the competent authority for felling them and disposing the produce.
Regarding plantation, the applicant suggested that space is available on the BRTS corridor for planting saplings. The court said that the applicant can give details of the suggested places to the officers of IDA and IMC who would be visiting the sites along with him and take necessary steps in this regard where ever feasible.
For translocation of trees, necessary equipments and know how including age and species of the trees and suitable season for such activity shall be taken into account, the court said.
What order says?
The order states that that no fully grown trees shall be cut unless there is no alternative and it is inevitable in the interest of development works being undertaken in Indore
If any tree is creating major hindrance in the development work, the same should be identified and marked separately, the court said.
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