Prakash Javadekar said, “271 stations of the Delhi Metro have been built and during this time trees are cut down and planted. Today, the number of trees in Delhi has increased.”
Mumbai| As the protests in the Goregaon’s Aarey forest is peaking Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that as per the Bombay High Court order, Aarey is not a forest. Giving the example of the country’s capital, he said that 20-25 trees were cut when the work of Delhi Metro started. It was opposed, but later five trees were planted instead of one tree and today the view is different.
He said that So far, 271 stations of the Delhi Metro have been built and during this time trees are cut down and planted. If today’s situation is taken, then the number of trees in Delhi has increased. It is called the development and preservation of nature, in which nature also develops along with other aspects.
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Union Minister of Environment Prakash Javadekar on #AareyForest: Bombay HC has ruled that it's not a forest. When the first Delhi metro station was to be constructed, 20-25 trees were to be cut, people had protested then too, but for each tree cut, five trees were planted. pic.twitter.com/pCAUuBFmAb
— ANI (@ANI) October 5, 2019
Mumbai: An activist was seen hugging a tree at the entry into #AareyForest from Marol Maroshi Road where Section 144 has been imposed. #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/7cKJmIO3Rx
— ANI (@ANI) October 5, 2019
Meanwhile, memories of the Chipko Movement were afresh. Here a social worker hugged a tree that was about to be cut. The Chipko movement was done to protect the environment. The movement started in 1973 in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand under the leadership of India’s popular environmentalists Sundarlal Bahuguna, Chandiprasad Bhatt and Gaura Devi. The special feature of this movement was that more women than men played an active role in it and when people came to cut trees with axes in their hands, women clung to the trees. That is why the movement got its name ‘Chipko Andolan’.
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