UDHAGAMANDALAM: Activists are up in hands over the police department’s determination to fell at least 487 bushes, most of which are more than 50-year-old eucalyptus and cypress, spread throughout 10 acres at Church Hill area on Havelock Road right here to arrange a full-fledged parade ground for training police body of workers.
“It has always been a wooded area and a habitat for plenty of birds, leopards and bears. It is not fair to spoil the forest,” Siddharth Krishnan, a resident of Have Road informed TOI.
“The bushes are being felled in a moved quickly means. Why can’t officers employ the realm housing dilapidated police quarters? After all, it's located near the forest patch where they're chopping down the bushes,” advocate Reinia Santy, another resident of the realm, stated.
When contacted, a senior police legit informed TOI that the wooded area belonged to the police department. “We don’t have a full-fledged parade ground in Nilgiris for training police body of workers. It is a long-pending call for and now we've got commenced the paintings to arrange one on Havelock Road,” the legit stated.
The procedure, the legit stated, started two years in the past and the entire formalities had been adopted to acquire permission from the concerned authorities to fell the bushes there.
According to Nilgiris SP Murali Rambha, an public sale used to be conducted on the district police headquarters on January 31 and one Kemparaj used to be allocated the comfortable for Rs 18.93 lakh. Kemparaj used to be given six months’ time to transparent the realm by means of felling 487 bushes.
“The price of bushes will certainly be more than Rs 1 crore. And the bidding used to be finalised for just Rs 18.93 lakh,” Siddharth, also a faculty member of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, stated. District forest officer (north) S Kalanidhi stated the forest department had granted the police department permission to fell the bushes at Church Hill area a few months in the past. “It used to be cleared by means of the district level committee too,” the officer informed TOI.
“It has always been a wooded area and a habitat for plenty of birds, leopards and bears. It is not fair to spoil the forest,” Siddharth Krishnan, a resident of Have Road informed TOI.
“The bushes are being felled in a moved quickly means. Why can’t officers employ the realm housing dilapidated police quarters? After all, it's located near the forest patch where they're chopping down the bushes,” advocate Reinia Santy, another resident of the realm, stated.
When contacted, a senior police legit informed TOI that the wooded area belonged to the police department. “We don’t have a full-fledged parade ground in Nilgiris for training police body of workers. It is a long-pending call for and now we've got commenced the paintings to arrange one on Havelock Road,” the legit stated.
The procedure, the legit stated, started two years in the past and the entire formalities had been adopted to acquire permission from the concerned authorities to fell the bushes there.
According to Nilgiris SP Murali Rambha, an public sale used to be conducted on the district police headquarters on January 31 and one Kemparaj used to be allocated the comfortable for Rs 18.93 lakh. Kemparaj used to be given six months’ time to transparent the realm by means of felling 487 bushes.
“The price of bushes will certainly be more than Rs 1 crore. And the bidding used to be finalised for just Rs 18.93 lakh,” Siddharth, also a faculty member of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, stated. District forest officer (north) S Kalanidhi stated the forest department had granted the police department permission to fell the bushes at Church Hill area a few months in the past. “It used to be cleared by means of the district level committee too,” the officer informed TOI.
487 trees to be felled for police parade ground in Nilgiris
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