Green board bans tree-axing after replant order flout

  • 27/12/2003

With the grand old trees gone and not many replaced, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (PCB) has slapped a ban on further felling of trees by the civic authorities. Besides, the PCB has also called upon police commissioner Sujoy Chakraborty to ensure that there is no more chopping of trees on the pretext of widening roads. Not until the civic body has followed the rules of transplantation