BENGALURU: Ashutosh Sharma, a resident of Kasavanahalli, had planted about 400 saplings of fruit-bearing timber around Kasavanahalli Lake three years in the past. Every day thereafter, he painstakingly tended the saplings and watched them change into into young timber. Then, nearly in a single day, the BBMP felled the timber.
"I would spend up to four hours every day watering and tending them," a distraught Sharma stated. "They were like my children." It wasn't his first tryst with the callousness of the BBMP, Sharma stated. About seven months in the past, the Palike, which is developing a tank bund, uprooted the saplings. "I managed to save them, and I even complained to BBMP," stated Sharma, who has additionally planted timber around two other lakes. "When I got back from Mussoorie (his hometown) this week, I found that all the saplings, which had now grown to five feet, were destroyed by the Palike's earth movers."
The BBMP, however, used to be unapologetic. "Monsoon will be here soon, which is why we are hurrying with bund-centering work," stated T Jagannath Rao, deputy conservator of forests, lakes, BBMP. "If somebody wants to plant saplings on their own property, it is fine, but in this case, it is government land. No permission was taken from us."
Rao claimed it wasn't possible to save the plants since subject matter needed to be transported by means of cars.
"I would spend up to four hours every day watering and tending them," a distraught Sharma stated. "They were like my children." It wasn't his first tryst with the callousness of the BBMP, Sharma stated. About seven months in the past, the Palike, which is developing a tank bund, uprooted the saplings. "I managed to save them, and I even complained to BBMP," stated Sharma, who has additionally planted timber around two other lakes. "When I got back from Mussoorie (his hometown) this week, I found that all the saplings, which had now grown to five feet, were destroyed by the Palike's earth movers."
The BBMP, however, used to be unapologetic. "Monsoon will be here soon, which is why we are hurrying with bund-centering work," stated T Jagannath Rao, deputy conservator of forests, lakes, BBMP. "If somebody wants to plant saplings on their own property, it is fine, but in this case, it is government land. No permission was taken from us."
Rao claimed it wasn't possible to save the plants since subject matter needed to be transported by means of cars.
Resident plants 400 saplings, BBMP fells them
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