Court orders restoration of trees rather of felling them Pune The Bombay .
Pune: High Court allot the permission of the removing of 72 trees on the condition that they will re-planted for the Metro and two-storey flyover that will obstruct the widening of Ganesh khind Road. This has paved the way for the widening of Ganeshkhind road, (Ganeshkhind Road-Pune Metro) Ganeshkhind Road Metro No. 3 lines is in progress. A two-storey flyover is also being constructed at the Savitribai Phule Pune University forecourt on this road.
As the range of the road on both sides of the ground is less due to this flyover work, the Ganeshkhind Road has been widened by 45 meters as per the development plan of the Municipal Corporation. The widening work is in progress.
The work of widening the road has begun still, the work was stopped for last six months due to opposition from environmentalists to the uprooting of trees. As a result, traffic on the busy road has been disturbed. Meanwhile, environmentalists have been opposing the construction of the road.
The external enforced the specialized process while removing these trees. Ranjit Gadgil, on behalf of the area society, approached the High Court against the Municipal Corporation, professing that the process of removing trees was started unilaterally without hearing the expostulations of the citizens.
The High Court has appointed an expert committee to look about the matter. Report to be submitted. Consequently, a commission of experts was formed and the report was accepted. On the base of the committee's report, the High Court allowed lifted the stay on the condition that 72 trees to be removed on this road will be seeded, said Nisha Chavan, the legal officer of the Municipal Corporation, moment's court hail. Nisha Chavan(Adv. Nisha Chavan) Pleaders Ranjit Gadgil and Aniruddha Pawaskar were also present in the court. The court lifted the stay after taking an undertaking that the trees would bere-planted and its report would also be submitted.