The Hindu : `Corporation must take up numbering of trees'

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Sunday, May 04, 2003

Southern States

Southern States - Tamil Nadu-Chennai

`Corporation must take up numbering of trees'

By P. Oppili

CHENNAI MAY 3 . Numbering surviving trees which are more than three years old, encouraging residents to take up planting of saplings, engaging tree wardens selected by the Forest department are some of the issues discussed at an Exnora Green Protection Council meeting organised here today.

Honorary tree wardens from various parts of the city, who participated, said only 25 per cent of the saplings planted under the `Greenbelt for Abatement of Pollution' survived. The Forest department handed over those saplings to the Chennai Corporation. Now, the Corporation should take up the numbering and also provide protection to trees which were more than three years old, they suggested.

Another suggestion was the Corporation, like the Forest department, should encourage and utilise the services of the honorary tree wardens by providing them identity cards. Instead of taking up sapling planting works on the roads and avenues, both the Forest department and the Corporation should approach the residents to plant saplings within their compounds.

With a view to encouraging the residents, the civic body should issue a certificate of appreciation to those who provide protection to the grown-up trees and also participate in the planting programmes, they felt.

Lack of coordination among various government agencies was one of the main reasons which led to felling of trees. The Corporation should hold a meeting with various Central and State Government agencies such as the TNEB, Telephones, Metrowater to discuss the issue of felling trees.

The council also decided to conduct awareness programmes in one school in every Corporation division and the students would be urged to spread the message among residents, according to the president, R. Govindaraj. Similarly, the council plans to form a committee to initiate legal action against those who fell pavement trees, said the coordinator, L.S.M. Hasan Fizal.

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