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980 trees felled in Greater Noida: In affidavit before NGT, UP official says company ‘denied responsibility’
Indian Chronicle
|May 16, 2025
Nearly three months after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) observed that the illegal felling of 980 trees in Greater Noida was not taken seriously by the Uttar Pradesh authorities and also asked the principal chief conservator of forests (CCF) to appear virtually before it on May 13, he filed a detailed affidavit before the green body on Saturday.
In his affidavit, Sunil Chaudhary, CCF, Uttar Pradesh, said that on June 10, 2024, information was received regarding illegal tree felling within the compound of M/s Shakuntalam Land Craft Pvt. Ltd, Greater Noida Authority, which was formerly leased to Daewoo Company, Surajpur by the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corpo-ration Limited. “The Range Forest Officer, Dadri, Gautam Buddh Nagar was appointed as Enquiry Officer via a letter dated June 26 in this matter,” he said in the affidavit.Following this, he added, “the offenders were identified” and a number of notices were issued to them, including Shakuntalam Land Craft, “between June 2024 to March
This story is from the May 16, 2025 edition of Indian Chronicle.
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