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Save Banyans of Chevella, a run by environmentalists and quality lovers from the city, scored a uncommon triumph against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) erstwhile the second agreed to alteration the alignment of the National Highway-163 enlargement program to accommodate successful situ, 765 banyan trees dotting the margins.
The National Green Tribunal, wherever the roadworthy enlargement task has been stuck for years, has fixed a go-ahead for the road, with conditions.
In a compromise connected their part, the petitioners representing the campaign, agreed for translocation of 150 trees, to the margins of the expanded road. Of the 150 trees, astir 130 stay now, which volition beryllium translocated arsenic per the agreement.
The NGT bid uploaded to the nationalist domain connected Wednesday, incorporated the suggestions of the petitioners, who sought retention of each the trees different than banyans which had been scheduled for felling successful the earlier plan, but present are not successful the mode of expansion. The archetypal connection envisaged felling of implicit 900 banyans and 10,000 different trees, they said, successful an autarkic memo submitted to the court, successful summation to the associated memo with NHAI. The histrion extortion committee of the Telangana Forest section identified 415 specified trees that tin beryllium saved, specified arsenic tamarind and rainfall trees, a connection from the petitioners said.
Further, their proposition that the monitoring committee being acceptable up to supervise the task indispensable see astatine slightest 2 citizens has been accepted by NGT which issued directions to the NHAI to see astatine slightest 2 section citizens funny successful safeguarding the trees.
A media connection from the Save Banyans of Chevella said a cardinal determination by the NHAI is to alteration the translocation model. Instead of shifting trees to Mudimyal, arsenic planned earlier, they volition present beryllium moved lone a fewer metres away.
The Nature Lovers of Hyderabad, who are the petitioners successful this campaign, person besides compiled a database of locally sourced autochthonal trees that the NHAI has agreed to see successful the plantation, and compensatory afforestation exemplary for this project, the connection said, and thanked the Chief Minister Anumula Revanth Reddy and the Parigi MLA T. Ram Mohan Reddy for their efforts to bring the task to a satisfactory conclusion.
