The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and forest departments of Maharashtra, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh over alleged disappearance of 6 million trees from farmlands between 2019 and 2022.
Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel observed that massive loss of trees was observed particularly in Telangana and Maharashtra.
"The disappearance of mature farmland trees was observed in many areas, but numbers rarely exceed five to 10%, except for areas in central India, in particular in the States of Telangana and Maharashtra, where massive loss of large trees was observed," the order dated July 4 stated.
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Aug 31 2024