The police seem clueless about those behind the increasing incidents of tree felling along the National Highway 47 bypass.
As
many as five trees on the median close to the Palarivattom traffic
signal faced the axe on Monday adding to the unresolved cases of rampant
removal of green cover along the route. National Highways Authority of
India project director C. T. Abraham said police have not been able to
track the offenders despite his office lodging several complaints of
tree felling earlier.
Greens blame the advertisement
agencies for tree felling as they want better visibility for the flex
boards erected on either sides of the national highway. They also
alleged that it was often done in connivance with the monitoring
agencies including the police.
Palarivattom police
said a few autorickshaw drivers had complained about tree felling in the
area. But those could not be called trees considering their size and
that only a few branches were pruned, they said.
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