SC proposes planting 2x trees felled in Ridge, order to be passed today | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday proposed that the Delhi Development Authority, which illegally felled 1,670 trees in southern ridge, would plant double the number of trees cut in the ridge and hundred times the number of trees cut across the national capital as part of compensatory afforestation.Though formal orders to this effect are expected to be passed by a bench led by CJI on Friday, the bench's proposal was accepted by advocates Maninder Singh and Vikas Singh, who appeared for DDA.The bench asked senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan to suggest a mechanism to be put in place to prevent such illegal felling of trees by any authority in the ridge areas, the only patches of contiguous greens in Delhi that act as lungs for the polluted city.While the DDA chairman and LG V K Sax...