: The National Green Tribunal has asked the Delhi government to plant 2,000 trees for chopping 216 trees in a residential colony in North-East Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar told the chief engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) that fine would be imposed in case the Tribunal’s orders were not complied with.
The direction came while hearing a plea by advocate S. D. Windlesh who had alleged that in a service lane of four square metres in a Yamuna Vihar colony, the PWD had cut nearly 216 trees without permission to widen the road.
The plea had said the service lane had a 15-metre-long green belt which attracted residents in the mornings for walking and jogging, but all of it had been destroyed.
The green watch dog had previously directed the city government to not cut trees till further directions and directed filing of a contempt petition against it for defying its orders.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar told the chief engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD) that fine would be imposed in case the Tribunal’s orders were not complied with.
