Nagpur: While the Civic body focuses on increasing income from advertising board advertising, city green cover continues to be destroyed by advertising mafia, which is mercilessly cutting down trees to ensure better visibility of their hoarding.
Toi has repeatedly highlighted such incidents, but it seems there is no end of such a massacre.
On Wednesday, three peepal trees that fully grew cut down illegally across the remote sensing center on Jalan Amravati.
The trees have been planted by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) in 2018 during one of the plantation drives.
Over the years, the civil body has taken over their maintenance and the trees are about 20 feet with tree guards for protection.
According to environmental activists Jaydeep Das, who saw logging, trees deliberately cut better stockpiling visibility by advertising agencies.
“Hundreds of trees are planted on road stretching but only all three, right in front of stockpiling, cut,” he said.
According to a security guard, a group of unidentified men came early in the morning at the Autorickshaw and quickly cut down trees.
After complaints from activists, the official team from the NMC Garden Department visited the place and conducted inspections.
“We will submit the first information report (FIR) to advertising agencies.
Notification will also be issued for the company.
We will also find out whether the hoarding is legally supported,” the official said.
“By hoarding the mafia, actions must begin against landowners who have hired property and advertisers must be humiliated because their advertisements lead to this antisocial action,” said the watershed.
With a rampant logging of trees by advertising agencies, activists have demanded the blacklist of the perpetrators.
“These agents have a mafia that brutally cut down trees after their advantage.
NMC must take strict action against them,” they said.
In one such bold step, the Commissioner of the City of Abhijit Bangar has taken his first action in November 2019 by removing a permanently large advertising board.
To ensure the visibility of this hoarding, three trees have been cut twice near the Bole gas station.
Bangar has formed a committee to conduct shared inspections and assess the cause of damage.
Once the majority of members conclude that the trees are deliberately cut to increase the visibility of stockpiling, the stockpiling is immediately removed.
Once again the tree was cut in the Nagpur to hoard, activists demanded the transfer of the board
