Power line: SC panel prunes tree damage

  • 31/01/2003

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

Six thousand trees in Tehri-Garhwal will be cut and not 30,000 planned earlier as part of an arrangement to break a deadlock and allow an 800 MW transmission line from the Tehri dam to power-starved Uttar Pradesh.Directions to this effect were isued after a public hearing conducted by the Supreme Court's central empowered committee(CEC).