Decreasing Greenery, Increasing Hazards

Recently, a forest harvesting spread over about four hundred acres in the Kancha Gachibowli area of Telangana drew the attention of the entire country to its attention and attention.

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The Supreme Court took suo moto cognizance of this sensitive issue. A bench of Justices BR Gavin and Justice Agustin George Christ made a sharp note in the matter asking the state government a number of stern questions and banned any kind of activity in the area until the next hearing. The court clearly asked what emergency was finally created due to which the forest had to start in such a hurry? Was the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) certificate taken for this project and whether the deforestation was duly taken permission from the Forest Department ? The case came to light when the registrar of the Telangana High Court sent some pictures related to this harvesting to the Supreme Court, which clearly saw the cutting and ground levelling activities of trees through heavy machines. Those photographs also clarified that this work was being carried out at night.

The location is the Hyderabad University Pass, where the Telangana government was planning a construction plan of a grand iti park, but the same area is also the natural habitat of many types of wildlife, including peacocks, deer and other protected species. A heartbroken video on social media came into the spotlight, with dark bulldozers moving and hearing fearful sounds of the morons around. It shocked the conscience of the common masses. The video was getting clear that not only the trees, but the entire ecosystem is being brutally murdered. This forest was not merely a group of green trees but a shelter of thousands of organisms.