The housing and urban affairs minister said the agencies have been asked to rework and redesign the plans to avoid cutting of trees.
No trees would be cut in the process of redevelopment of seven colonies in South Delhi, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said Thursday, as he also assured that the national capital's green cover would not be 바카라damaged바카라 and steps would be taken to enhance it.
The housing and urban affairs minister said the agencies -- the NBCC and the CPWD -- entrusted to executing the redevelopment project have been asked to rework and redesign the plans to avoid cutting of trees.
However, some trees may be transplanted at some other location and the NBCC has floated an Expression of Interest for the acquisition of tree re-location/transplantation equipment and for engaging services of trained professional entities in this respect, an official release said.
바카라I have always maintained that the green cover in Delhi will not be damaged & steps will be taken to enhance it even further. As stated earlier, no trees will henceforth be cut in the process of redevelopment of Delhi colonies,바카라 Puri said in a tweet.
Puri's comment came after he held a meeting on the proposed cutting of trees with Delhi LG Anil Baijal, DDA vice chairman Udai Pratap Singh, NBCC CMD Anoop Kumar Mittal, CPWD DG Abhai Sinha and HUA secretary D S Mishra, among others.
바카라I chaired a meeting of all stakeholders where NBCC/CPWD have been asked to rework & redesign the plans. We will also go ahead with compensatory plan of planting 1 million trees within the next 3 months. Citizen groups will be invited to suggest locations for transplantation,바카라 he said in another tweet.
Amid a blame game over environment nod for the project, Puri said all the permissions were earlier granted by the Forest Department of the Delhi government on the recommendation of Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain.
바카라I have now asked agencies concerned (CPWD and NBCC) to rework plans. I hope the Delhi government will now follow this example in all future plans,바카라 he added.
The government had announced that it would be cutting over 14,000 trees for building over 25,000 flats for government employees in seven colonies of south Delhi. The proposal attracted heavy criticism from green activists, politicians and citizens.
Speaking to reporters on the issue, HUA secretary D S Mishra said, 바카라Not a single tree will be cut for redevelopment of govt colonies in Delhi.바카라
During the meeting, a decision was taken to plant more than one million trees, ranging from 8-12 feet height, in different parts of Delhi with NBCC planting 25,000; CPWD - 50,000; DDA- 10 lakh and DMRC-20,000, an official release said.
바카라The planting of trees will be completed in the next three months during the monsoon season and the trees will comprise fruit-bearing, flowering and other green trees,바카라 it added.
Meanwhile, Baijal has been advised to set up a Group of experts/concerned citizens to interact on environmental issues and for specific further actions to be taken in respect of these colonies, the release said.
NBCC is redeveloping Sarojini Nagar, Netaji Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, while the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) is managing the rest four colonies in Kasturba Nagar, Thyagraj Nagar, Srinivaspuri and Mohammadpur.
A major protest broke out against the decision to feel the trees, with locals and activists launching their own "Chipko Movement", a forest conservation movement where people embraced trees to prevent them from being cut in Uttarakhand (then Uttar Pradesh) in the 1970s.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also hit out at the BJP and the AAP over the proposed felling of trees in the national capital for the redevelopment project and called for fighting this 바카라madness바카라.
The NBCC, said, it it has directed all its contractors not to cut trees in any of its redevelopment projects in South Delhi, in line with the undertaking it has given to the Delhi High Court.
(PTI)