The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday constituted a special committee to inspect an elevated road project on Vikas Puri-Mukarba Chowk on Outer Ring Road in West Delhi and to examine whether the trees that could be uprooted as part of the work and transplanted.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar set up the committee after it was told that over 1,400 trees would be cut down as part of the project. It will study whether the transplantation of the trees is possible. “This committee will visit the project site and examine as to which of the 1,400 trees can be transplanted. If the answer is in positive and trees to be transplanted are identified, then transplantation of the trees shall take place at a first instance," the bench said.