environment concerns. a former IIT Director cut trees in campus illegaly...punish the guilt

@prakashjavdekar @pmoindia@narendramodi #Modi #environment.. I would like to draw your kind attention to the environment concerns of the country in general and city specifically and request to take concrete steps to protect the environment through awareness, plantation and by punishing the guilty.

Delhi has only 10.2% forest cover left even though Forests Act says 30% is minimum.”. This has led to severe air pollution in the city.

Few years back a Director ( Dr. Surendra Prasad)  of IIT Delhi has ordered cutting of mass green trees in the IIT Delhi campus illegally. A case was registered against him, but was left half way due to nexus between bureacracy and politicians of that time.

It is therefore requested that the case may kindly be reexamined and the guilty be brought to face the consequences such measures will go a long way in sending a clear message against the illegal cutting of trees.

Recently the Delhi govt too has ordered cutting of the trees and the matter was taken to the High court.
Amicus curiae Kailash Vasdev told the Delhi High Court  that “over 100,000 trees” were felled by the Public Works Department and Delhi Metro between 2006 and 2010 in the national capital and the Delhi government had not placed post-2009 data on tree felling and development projects in the public domain.

Further an estimated 10,500 deaths, directly related to bronchial and cardiovascular diseases, were occurring every year in the capital. The data was obtained through Vallabh bhai chest institute in Delhi.
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> A strong initiative by the central environment ministry is therefore must to protect the health and  environment amid a fast changing life style and all around development. The ministry must also look into the cases of illegal tree cutting.