Ahmedabad: Gujarati Management Sahitya Parishad, home for enlightened coteries that have written RIM in nature and His gifts, has cut 20 trees on the Ashram Road campus.
This institution not only ignored the protest of the members of his executive committee against illegal tree logging but also insulted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) which had issued a notification in this matter.
“On January 27, when we noticed that the trees were cut down on the spot, we wrote to Kirtida Shah, Secretary General Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, who was in accordance with the activity was taken.
We urged him to stop him and even tried to know whether the Paris was Having taken the civic body permission to cut trees.
We did not receive an answer, “said Hemang Raval, one of the members of the Executive Committee.
He said that on January 29, AMC also issued a notification to the Institute who was looking for clarification.
“They ignored it and a day later, on January 30, went ahead and cut down more trees in that place,” Raval said.
Raval and several authors including Sanjay Bhave, Hardwar Goswami, Dharini Shukla, Bhavesh Bhatt, Deputy President of Parishad Pramul Raval and Treasurer of Rajendra Upadhyay held a meeting of symbolic condolences.
They blocked the stumps of full planted trees that stood upright until a few days ago and brought a lot of pleasure to the people here.
“When he arrived at our notification that the trees were cut down on the parahad campus, we issued a notice to request clarification.
They did not respond for two days despite repetitive calls.
Only after we warned them about the actions of the police they answered.
The Institute admitted that it did not take Civic’s body permission to cut trees because they did not know such a procedure, “AMC official said.
The official said that 15 out of 20 trees had been cut from the roots while some had been cut comfortably and reduced into stumps.
“We have started the process of legal action and will slap the fines on the authorities,” the official said.