Protest towards proposed felling of bushes for Dehradun airport venture

Jolly Grant Airport (euttaranchal.com)

Environmental activists and native citizens on Sunday protested out of doors Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Airport on Sunday towards the proposed chopping of greater than 9,745 bushes in Thano woodland for enlargement of the airport.

The Ministry of Setting, Wooded area and Local weather Exchange (MoEF) had just lately requested the Uttarakhand executive to imagine any other space for the growth. “Out of the 87.0185 ha proposed space to be diverted, 47 ha space falls underneath MDF (rather dense woodland)… (state executive) would possibly discover possible choices for the proposal equivalent to obtaining space mendacity north of present runway,” learn a letter by way of the MoEF’s woodland conservation department to the Uttarakhand Wooded area Division. “All the proposed woodland space for diversion falls throughout the Shivalik Elephant Reserve and elephant corridors inside its 1 km radius.”

The growth venture comprises construction of the airport, parking space, a brand new ATC tower and lengthening the prevailing runway to three.Five km to fulfill world airport requirements.

Protecting placards and dressed in mask, protesters on Sunday demanded that bushes must now not be reduce and that woodland professionals and native citizens must were consulted all through the making plans procedure. Working social media campaigns to save lots of the bushes, activists mentioned they’ll additionally release a mass consciousness marketing campaign quickly.

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