High Court puts PUDA, GMADA on notice
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 10
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today put the Mohali Municipal Corporation, PUDA, GMADA and the Deputy Commissioner, on notice, on a petition filed in public interest for removal of paver/cement blocks from within a two-meter radius from tree trunks in market places, green belts and parking areas, among others.
The notice by the Bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha and Justice Arun Palli for May 4 came on the petition filed by an NGO-Save My Trees Foundation India through its convener Amarjit Singh Minhas.
Appearing before the Bench, counsel for the petitioner, HC Arora, submitted that trees were decaying and dying, and greenery in the city was being destroyed. The petitioner also prayed for directing the respondents against laying such paver/concrete blocks in future around the trees within their two meter radius.
In an attempt to substantiate his contentions, Arora on the petitioner’s behalf also referred to several photographs of trees surrounded by such paver blocks standing in different areas of Mohali.
Arora further referred to the guidelines issued to the Chief Secretaries of all the states and Union Territories advising that only porous paver blocks were to be constructed around the trees for facilitating recharge rainwater.
