NGO’s Muski cheruvu bund plantation move opposed
The Hindu
Manikonda civic head, Irrigation officials not aware of plantation on lake bund
In a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, the Rangareddy district administration had issued permission to plant on a lake bund, a little ahead of the Irrigation department removing trees from another bund terming them harmful.
Responding to a request by ‘Dhruvansh’, an NGO, Additional Collector, Rangareddy district Prateek Jain had, in August, issued permission for plantation of a total of 10,000 saplings on the bund of Muski cheruvu as part of the Haritha Haram programme.
While the permission letter clearly stipulates that the plantation should be done in consultation with the Manikonda Municipal Commissioner and Irrigation authorities, the latter have had no clue about the plantation until alerted by Lubna Sarwat, from Save Our Urban Lakes (SOUL), who called the plantation unscientific.
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