Delhi is losing an average of five trees per hour

Delhi is losing an average of five trees per hour 

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Delhi Residents’ Plea Against Felling Of Trees For Overbridge 

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesofindia.com 22.11.2024 

New Delhi : With Delhi losing on an average five trees per hour and the city facing life threatening pollution levels, the city residents seem to have woken up to the importance of trees in their life and one resident asso ciation of a colony on Thursday approached SC against cutting of trees for the construction of a foot-over-bridge. The Resident Association of Inderpuri in central Delhi fi led the petition to restrain railways for constructing a foot-over bridge at Railway Halt near the colony as 15-20 trees would have to be cut for the project. 

The petition was mentioned before a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih agreed to hear its plea and listed it for Fri day. “It is of paramount importance to note that the protection and preservation of existing trees has a direct and proportional effect on the protection of the environment in the National Capital. The inaction of the authorities concerned to protect the existing trees has a direct and proportional effect on the health and well-being of the applicant and the general public including the violation of their right to a clean and healthy environment, which is implicit in their fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution,” the petition, filed through advocate Manan Verma, said.