Gujarat HC approves axing of 10,000 trees for Rajkot-Veraval highway
August 03, 2012
Gandhinagar, 3 August, 2012
The Gujarat High Court has today cleared axing of over 10,000 trees for widening of Rajkot-Veraval highway. The High Court has asked NHAI to plant 30,000 trees in compensation.
A division bench of HC comprising acting chief justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and justice JB Pardiwala had earlier issued a stay order on the decision to fell the large number of trees to widen the Rajkot-Veraval highway.
The petition was filed by Rajkot-based environment activists Raju Shah and Bharat Sureja after the local forest department issued tender notices in local news papers. Vijay Nangesh, counsel for the petitioners, had submitted in the petition that, the local forest department had issued advertisement regarding cutting of 4,865 trees on the road side for expansion of Veraval-Somnath and Jetpur-Junagadh highway roads. Another advertisement was also published regarding the felling of 5,397 trees for expansion of Rajkot-Atkot, Bhavnagar and Baldhoi-Rajkot road.
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