The recent spate of rain in April has led to more than 50 tree falls, including a coconut tree, in the city. With the recent case of a 10-year-old girl passing away due to injuries suffered in a tree branch fall, the spectre of tree falls and the threat it poses to life or limbs has become real again.
Residents across the city have come down heavily on the civic body for not putting in place a systematic tree pruning mechanism.
Satyamurthy, founder president of Residential Welfare Association (RWA) Sanjaynagar, says: “The main problem is that nobody cares. Even if we do complain to the BBMP, they don’t take immediate action. They provide helpline numbers but we don’t get any help from them. Most of the time we try to solve it by ourselves,” he said.
