Due to the efforts of some concerned citizens under the banner of Citizens For Green Doon (CFGD), the Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation (UFDC) did not cut the five healthy trees near Indira Market for the construction of a complex under Indira Market redevelopment project.
Earlier on Tuesday, some employees from UFDC arrived to cut five trees out of 22 trees including Peepal and banyan tree among others.
The corporation along with MDDA had decided to transplant 17 trees and cut the remaining five.
As informed by Himanshu Arora from CGFD, they requested the employees of UFDC to first transplant the 17 trees before cutting the five trees but they refused to consider any request and said that they would cut the trees on Wednesday morning.
However, Arora informed that they talked to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) Jai Raj in late on Tuesday evening and he agreed to their idea about the transplantation of the other trees before cutting five trees.
He said that employees from UFDC did come to the location to cut the trees in the morning but soon they got the directions from the officials concerned to return without damaging any tree.
Arora added that they will also write a letter to the officials of UFDC and MDDA shortly stating not to begin the transplantation of 17 trees before four months as this is not the season for transplanting trees to other locations.
