Ajni tree felling: submit objections till June 30, says NMC

NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has extended the deadline to submit objections against large-scale tree felling at Ajni for the proposed inter modal station (IMS) till June 30. As per a public notice issued on Thursday, the garden department of the civic body also announced that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will be transplanting over 5,000 trees rather than felling them.
The earlier notice stated that 4,522 trees will be felled for the IMS and another 408 for railway over bridge at Ajni. Experts have come down heavily on NHAI, stating that transplantation is a big failure in the city and will only lead to major environmental destruction and wastage of public money.
Till Thursday night, NMC had received 420 objection letters.