Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court has taken up a letter expressing concern at the felling of about 400 trees for the construction of a flyover in KPHB Colony of Hyderabad as a PIL.
Uday Krishna, a representative of VATA Foundation has written to the Chief Justice of the High Court stating that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, instead of protecting trees, had allowed the contractor of the flyover to axe them.
He said though mechanism and facilities to relocate grown trees were available, the GHMC and HMDA haven’t taken any steps to utilise them.
Mr Krishna said in the authorities of GHMC and HMDA did not take any steps to punish people responsible for felling of a large number of grown and age old trees in the city.
He brought to the notice of the court that though some trees were relocated in some cases, those trees were now drying up as the authorities failed to take care of them.
He urged the court to intervene and pass orders for protection of trees.
