Kolkata: This city has the least forest cover among Metros India, revealing reports that have recently been published by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Kolkata used to have the second highest green cover among all the other cities in the country but lose the position for the past decade, because tropical tropical consecrate that hit the city, revoked trees, brought havoc in the city environment.
Green cover plays a big role in surrounding air repair and for its climate resilience.
Trees also help neutralize the effect of hot island.
Without a thick green cover, the overall environment of the city deteriorated faster.
The new study showed that Kolkata lost 30% percent of forest cover between 2011 and 2021.
This was the second highest loss of forest cover after that at Ahmedabad, who saw the loss of 48% of forest cover in the appropriate decade.
“The loss is quite bad, compared to it in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, who have obtained forest cover 11%, 9%, 15% and 26% in the same period,” said Ajay Mittal, Director, Climate Change), India and South Asia, Earth Day Network.
“It’s time for us to recognize it and take improvement steps, such as intensive plantations without wasting time,” he added.
“Apart from the increase in real estate and other infrastructure projects, the most fierce cyclone, such as Aila, Amphan and Yaas, have robbed us from green cover.
The losses cannot be recovered and we now need intensive plantations to increase green cover,” said a man Urban forestry and recreational wing officials from the Ministry of Forestry, are responsible for urban forest cover.
The Bonani Kakkar environment shows the city grew gray because of the low survival rate of compensation plantations carried out on logging trees due to infrastructure projects.
“Most of the time, the tree is planted sharply, planted only for it.
Post-plantation care is completely lost.
Most of them have premature deaths due to lack of basic care,” said Karkar people united to live better at Calcutta (public ).
But citizenship officials claim they are careful to plant trees.
“It’s not that we don’t plant enough for the loss of forest cover during the cyclone.
But most of the plants will take several more years to be mapped by satellites.
But of course, there is no rejection that the city has an inadequate green cover, compared to partial Large metro city, “said a KMC official from the park and park department.