Complaint to be lodged with National Green Tribunal
Mysore/Mysuru: A group of environment-conscious activists from city performed funeral rituals to a 40-year-old fully grown peepal tree that was axed near Ganapati Temple, BEML Layout in Srirampura near Muninarayanappa Layout this morning. They vented their ire at the Forest Department and resolved to lodge a complaint with the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The healthy tree which was 12 ft. in diameter was cut on Feb. 27 by Forest Department as the inmates of a house near the tree had complained that the roots of the tree was damaging the foundation of their house. Terming the felling of the tree inhuman and mindless over a silly reason, the activists decried the Forest Department move.
