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Applications for removal of trees and pruning of histrion branches wrong the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) limits volition beryllium accepted lone done the Corporation’s authoritative website and the Namma Chennai mobile exertion from January 12, 2026.
The revised process applies to some authorities and backstage applicants seeking services specified arsenic removal of adust trees, pruning of branches, transplantation and removal of trees wrong the corp limits.
The merchandise said that a good of ₹15,000 would beryllium imposed for unauthorised cutting of branches, fixing advertisement boards by driving nails into trees, installing decorative lighting astir trees and akin violations successful nationalist spaces.
According to a property release, applications submitted done the Corporation’s portal volition beryllium subjected to a tract inspection by officials acrophobic from the Parks and Forest departments and NGOs. The merchandise said that inspection reports would beryllium forwarded to a ‘green committee’ successful the GCC for further action.
This would regenerate the earlier system, wherever applications were submitted straight done the Forest department, which was past forwarded to the GCC.
Stating that the applicants volition person updates connected the presumption of their requests done substance messages, the merchandise added that details tin besides beryllium tracked done the Corporation’s website. The merchandise mentioned that unauthorised felling of trees successful nationalist places volition pull a punishment of ₹1 lakh.
The Corporation requested the nationalist to use for each tree-related services lone done the designated online platforms wrong the Greater Chennai Corporation areas.
