When 1,000 trees fall along 14 km, its time to think

  • 02/07/2003

It's a noble vision, to create the finest road network in India. But what's far from noble is the felling of thousands of trees -- many illegally -- on the road to realising that vision. Unofficial statistics show that, on an average, 100 trees are sacrificed per kilometre. Well, the official numbers are not much of a consolation either. Consider this: