Nagpur: Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s statement concerning felling of 4,522 trees along with a different 408 trees to Allied modal station (IMS) and rail over bridge (ROB) and its own tactics, respectively, in Ajni, has abandoned environmentalists seething.
They believe the ministry’s assurances of five times compensatory plantation and translocation of trees won’t succeed.
Meanwhile, the sources told TOI that the deadline to submit discriminated against hundreds of trees was extended until June 30 from the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).Till Wednesday, NMC had obtained over 200 objection letters.
Activist Kunal Mourya advised that over 11,000 individuals have signed for an internet request against tens of thousands of trees.
“People from throughout the nation are coming forward to protest against these large scale ,” he said.On Wednesday, Gadkari tweeted the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), that’s the executing authority of their jobs, has pioneered transplantation of trees in a identified forest property in Shankarpur on Wardha Road.
“It may also execute extra five times compensatory farm at appropriate places,” the ministry added.According to police officers, 4,522 trees would be trimmed for IMS and a second 408 to create an ROB linking the channel.
Though a total of almost 5,000 age-old trees will soon be completely trimmed, sources advised 2,000 trees, which no consent was taken from the NMC backyard section, will soon be transplanted.According for the, a total of over 7,000 trees will be in stake for phase-1 of this undertaking.
According to specialists, transplantation of trees are going to be a huge failure and a waste of public money.
“Price of transplanting a tree is approximately Rs 20,000.
This usually means the complete price of transplanting 2023 trees are going to be approximately Rs 4 crores.
This will be an additional scam,” said surroundings activist Jaydeep Das.TOI was reporting about collapse of transplantation from town.
Rs 10 lakh were spent MahaMetro’s transplantation of 31 trees and not one of them lived.
“After the taproots of a tree will be cut away, the tree won’t ever survive.
Scientifically additionally, it isn’t feasible to transplant in our town’s climatic and soil problems.
Trees can simply be seeded in coastal regions where there is moisture from the dirt and humidity in air,” said environmental activist Anasuya Kale Chhabrani.She additional which compensatory plantations also have been a significant collapse.
Lately, Gadkari had confessed that compensatory plantations completed by NHAI have failed in several places.Stating not many trees are acceptable for transplantation, creator of Green Vigil Foundation Kaustav Chatterjee stated,”hundreds of trees were ineffective in Nagpur mostly because of the town’s climate.
For trees transplanted, compensatory plantation at the ratio 1: 5 ought to be performed as a backup plan” Chatterjee added that species selected for compensatory plantation ought to be of same species being cut with higher oxygen transport and higher carbon dioxide.
“Above all, compensatory plantation has to be performed instead at Ajni or neighboring areas so as to keep green lungs of the town,” he explained.