A new Tree Transplatation Policy was authorized by Delhi cabinet final year October. (IE Image)
The Delhi government to make the technical expertise about transplanting trees will quickly set up a committed unit named the Tree Transplantation cell to assist the agencies in prosperous transferring of the trees to a new habitat below the new Tree Transplantation policy.
Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is also the Environment minister met the Environment and Forest Department officials on Wednesday to talk about plans on transplantation of trees and then passed orders to start work on setting up a cell for the objective. He asked the Forest division to get started with receiving on board agencies who have knowledge on tree transplantation for the new cell, a government statement stated.
Under the new Tree Transplantation policy, that received the cabinet’s nod in October final year, 80 per cent of the trees that had been impacted by any improvement project requires to mandatorily transplant. Although it is a welcome step towards forest conservation, the difficulty lies with the transplantation approach as a lot of trees on getting relocated to a new habitat do not survive beyond two years or normally do not develop adequate. The policy also says that as a great deal as 80 per cent of the transplanted trees should really survive.
Whichever division desires trees to be transplanted can strategy the agencies in the new cell that will be formed and payment will be created only if the agencies can make 80 per cent of the trees to survive immediately after transplantation, the policy stated. The Kejriwal led cabinet also stated that the cell will comprise of government officials, RWAs and citizens to certify the activity was completed with diligence.
The policy faced criticism from atmosphere activists and many other quarters who stated transplantation should really be a uncommon workout and improvement projects should really not influence tree cover, on the contrary, they should really be constructed about trees so that the region is all of a sudden not deprived of its green cover. The officials, nevertheless, assured that improvement project executing agencies will have to mandatory plant these uprooted trees in the vicinity of the original place, creating confident the character of the ecological balance of the region is not impacted a great deal.
The Delhi Pollution Control Board is also arranging to come up with a separate policy for dust manage at these improvement web-sites higher than 20,000-metre square.