Nagpur: City lost more than 10,262 trees in the last 10 years, roughly cutting three trees per day.
During the same period (2012 to 2022), Nagpur Municipal Corporation claimed to have planted 3.82 lakh tillers.
However, it has no record of how many of these puppies survive, because the Civic body did not conduct any surveys.
“NMC does not have a data on the survival rate of its plantation,” recognizes the supervisor of the Department of Government of Amol Chaurpagar.
This surprising fact occurred during a fixed committee meeting on Wednesday, which also allowed NMC to conduct a second tree census.
In 2011, the NMC had conducted the first tree census, when counting 21.43,838 trees.
Even though the tree census is mandatory every five years, the NMC does nothing in the past decade since 2011.
“The financial crunch was prevented by NMC from conducting a tree census,” Recognizing Chaurpagar.
About the second census, Chaurpagar said the actus of the tree that actually will take two years, which will take two years, which will take two years, which will be followed by three years of information on maintenance and update.
This exercise is based on the tree calculation process carried out by civil bodies in Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Thane etc.
Overall, the NMC will spend RS6 Crore for exercise that supports geographical, which will be carried out with the company’s personal help using GIS and GPS technology.
The census will consist of 34 different parameters.
“A tree must have a minimum diameter of 10cm and 9 feet height, whether it’s a flowering tree or fruit, heritage etc.,” said Park Inspector.
“All trees will get a unique identification number,” he said.
In the first census, Laxmi Nagar Zone has the highest number of trees at 6.08,634 followed by the Mangalwari zone at 4.58,209, and Dharampeth with 4.21 lakh trees.
The number of trees is at least calculated in the area under the Gandhibagh zone at 30,966.
During the 2022 tree census training, the Department of Gardens will also identify land banks throughout the city, especially in areas where more plantations are needed, said Chaurpagar.
The Garden Department has searched for details of NMC’s vacant land owned throughout the city from the land department.
Along with this, the standing panel also gave a nod to 10 other proposals.
However, it was seeking legal opinions about the revenue department proposal to resolve disputes with outdoor advertising agencies, said Chairman of the Standing Committee Prakash Bhoard.
Boxcounting Greens (2011 Census Tree) Zone — Sq km — Treeslaxmi Nagar — 44.57 — 608634Dharampeth — 30.63 — 421776Hanuman Nagar — 11.45 — 12.09– -110255nehru Nagar – – 11.77 — 64511gandhibagh — 4.26 — 30966satranjipura — 4.66 — 40304lakeDganj — 34.11 — 189098ashi nagar — 26.85 — 30.26– -458209.