KOLKATA: A full-grown tree that had been partially uprooted on the day Amphan hit Kolkata (May 25, 2020) and was dangerously leaning over a four-storeyed building and a couple of shops in Hindustan Park was axed and removed on Sunday. But the process left three shops and a residential building damaged.
According to a KMC source, the team from the civic body that had gone to chop the tree lost control while working in a crowded residential and commercial area and the logs fell on three shops and windows of a residential building and damaged them.
Swarup Mukherjee, a resident of Hindustan Park whose windows were damaged by the leaning tree twice, first on the Amphan day and again on Sunday, said: “Post cyclone, the disaster management teams had cut the upper branches which had broken windows and entered my house. The uprooted trunk was somehow reinstated. It became a menace as KMC forgot about it. We had reached out to all for removal of the dead tree. On Sunday, while the trunk was tied with a rope and being displaced, it fell on the opposite side and damaged two shops and the first floor of our house.”
