Looking at the Hyder Ali road in Memor after the authorities seized about 40 trees on Avenue. | Photo Credit: Ma Sriram
Minister for Forests, Biology and Environment Eshwar B. Khandre ordered an ax investigation 40 trees on Hyder Ali Road in Mysuru and searched for this matter in seven days.
The government’s probe monitors a public scream against the axis of fully adult trees and the questions of the environmentalists and the citizens concerned about the need for expansion of the road.
In the note of 19 April addressed to the main main conservator of the forest and the leading forest forces, Aranya Bhavan in Bengalur, the Minister was looking for investigation by a forest conservator official (CCF) to see if the correct procedures were followed during the fall of the road.
The probe should also find out whether the road deepening was really necessary and whether the cutting of the trees was justified or not. “The message must be submitted in seven days,” said Mr. Khandre.
In the note Mr. Khandre recently referred to the observation of the Supreme Court that “the limitation of a large number of trees is like killing human beings or worse than that” and quoted media reports reported that 40 trees were unnecessarily broken on the Hyder Ali road.
The Minister also took note of the Great Assembly of Environmentalists and Tree Lovers who gathered on the road to protest with a quiet candle to pay tribute to the ax trees.
With a world that is currently facing challenges, such as rising temperature and climate change, the Minister said that the preservation of trees is the duty of the forest department. “Life must exist, the living must continue, developing and nature should be maintained,” he said.
The Osava of Trees on the section of the Hyder Ali road, which connects the Office of the Police Superintendent and the Police Academy of Karnataka, apparently after midnight 12. April caused angry reactions from the whole spectrum of society in the city.
A group of environmentalists under the auspices of Parisara Univigagi Kriya Samithi, or the Action for Rescue Environment, raised 18th April a call to Silent Vigil in Sandles, leading to a great participation in people to protest on trees. Several people performed rituals on stumps of felled trees. Samithi also planned a festive death of 11th day or “thithi” to mourn over the loss of trees.
Meanwhile, protests against the axis of the trees continued on Sunday, with the representatives of the Mysuro team gathered on the road and expressed their outrage through works of art depicting pain and tears of the tree when it is chopped.
Demonstrators who increased the slogans to protect trees and plants also criticized officials responsible for the decrease in trees.
Published – April 20, 2025 06:49
