NAGPUR: The garden department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has issued a show cause notice to three residents of Pandey Layout and one resident of Sneh Nagar for indiscriminate trimming and chopping of trees in the concerned areas.
Over the last weekend, a number of trees in these areas were pruned excessively and some had even been cut down without getting prior permission from the garden department. The garden department swung into action after TOI published a report about the violation and also an NGO took up the matter. Officials of the garden department visited the spot and conducted an inspection.
"Four trees have been cut and 20 have been trimmed in these two areas and no permission was taken for the same. Bharat Gupta, Kishor Kolatkar and Pradeep Vaidya from Pandey Layout and Uday Londhekar from Sneh Nagar are the persons who had illegally cut and trimmed the trees," said Amol Chorpagar, tree inspector, NMC.
He also informed that a police complaint will be lodged. "We have sent a letter to the Pratap Nagar police station for the same," Chorpagar said. He added that when they inquired about the incident, many of the residents denied having any knowledge about the violation even though everything happened right in front of their doors. He said that the excuses he got were very flimsy. The garden department suspects that the residents might have employed banjaras to cut down the trees.
"Only some people are aware of their responsibility towards conservation of environment. Even the many of the educated ones have no awareness of their duty towards the environment. Most of them know that permission has to be obtained before chopping trees, but, they don't bother," Chorpagar said.
The NGO and the department also pointed out that people choose to ignore things happening around them. "People just don't bother and prefer to sit behind their closed doors. Even if they see a tree being cut, they will never come and ask why it is being cut. This is the scenario everywhere," said Bahar Baviskar of Wild CER which will be keeping a tab on tree chopping in Pandey Layout.
Now, action will be taken based on the replies sent by the four residents, said Chorpagar.
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