Action panel's transplanted trees back to life
Mysuru: They started as an informal group to fight against the axing of 40 mature trees that were more than six decades old on Hyder Ali Road near the SP office in Nazarbad. But now Action Committee is now taking forward its initiative to protect the waterbodies and greenery of Mysuru.As its first initiative, the committee, which is an umbrella grouping of more than a dozen organisations, transplanted four trees (Akash Mallige) that fell during downpour at Kukkarahalli Lake in early May.
Twigs sprouted from the branches of two translocated trees. In less than a week, the trees were back to life.It has been a month since the trees on Hyder Ali Road were axed. After activists voiced their concern about the axing of the trees, deputy commissioner G Lakshmikanth Reddy formed a committee to examine the need for widening the road, the need to cut 40 mature trees, and to check whether all rules were followed to remove the trees.Committee convener Kamal Gopinath told TOI that after the committee was formed to investigate the matter, its findings have not been disclosed yet. "We have written a letter to both deputy commissioner Lakshmikanth Reddy and forest minister Eshwar B Khandre seeking to disclose the report," Gopinath said.The committee, according to Gopinath, is not against development but aims to conserve the environment. Development should happen not at the cost of nature, he said.
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