- Falling of large number of trees during Delhi storm last Friday blamed on concretization and tiling around trees,Time for authorities to follow Delhi High Court and National Green Tribunal orders on green norms
- 2002 Urban Development Ministry Guidelines calls for using tiles only where there is heavy pedestrian movement and use of porous tiles, unabated concretization has been going on despite the govt guidelines.
- In 2007- 1000 tress fell due to concrete around them, green activists allege de-concretisation work in Delhi yet to start after NGT’s order in 2013
- According to environmentalist, RTI activist Aditya N Prasad locals hardly report incidents of fallen tree and take away whatever they can lay their hands on.
- Friday Delhi storm reportedly claimed 350 trees, activists wonder if fallen trees would be replaced with new saplings ever
- Another cause of fallen trees are termites, who eat into roots of trees and make them weaker, absence of moisture around roots is also a factor.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/
todays-paper/tp-national/tp- newdelhi/fallen-trees-reveal- flouting-of-green-norms/ article6071238.ece
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp- newdelhi/why-hundreds-of- trees-were-uprooted-during- storm/article6071236.ece
Exams Perspective:
- NGT
- Norms for felling trees
- Afforestation
- Deforestation
- Urbanisation