The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today constituted a special committee to inspect an elevated road project on Vikas Puri-Mukarba Chowk on Outer Ring Road in West Delhi and to examine whether the trees that would be uprooted as part of the work can be transplanted.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar set up the committee after it was told that over 1400 trees would be felled as part of the project and said if the tranplantation of the trees is possible then the same should be carried out expeditiously.
"We constitute a special committee consisting of Conservator of Forest, Delhi, Superintending Engineer of Public Works Department (PWD), a senior officer from Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Centre (UTTIPEC) and a scientist to be nominated by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE).
