With thousands of trees set to be felled for infrastructure development around Bengaluru, Karnataka’s Public Works Department (PWD) has undertaken a massive tree transplantation programme in six major road-widening projects involving 154.82 km.
According to official sources in the PWD, about 7,500 trees would be affected by road-widening works around Bengaluru. Of them, 2,104 trees would be transplanted to around lakes and barren land in the city and on the outskirts of the city. As many as 4,260 trees are identified for felling, while 1,136 have been identified for retention.
A six-member expert committee of the University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, has suggested a methodology for transplantation of trees.
