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| Last Updated:: 31/08/2019

Ecological imbalance or contempt of HC-Delhi Forest Department

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delhi Govt’s conundrum

 

What the High Court has ordered (in a series of cases)

  • To plant around 2 lakh tree saplings in central ridge
  • Sapling should be 6 feet tall
  • Sapling should be three and half year’s age.

 

 

 

What experts say

  • Species such as Mango and Jackfruit unsuitable for ridge
  • 6 feet tall saplings would find it difficult to establish in the thin soil layer
  • Mass plantation in central ridge would disrupt local ecosystem

 

 

 

Source: Hindustan Times, 30 August 2019, New Delhi.