KMC to seek Forest dept's nod to cut 100 risk-prone trees

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will soon seek permission from the state Forest department to cut down some 100 odd trees that have been posing a risk of collapse.

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

KOLKATA:

According to sources in the Parks and Garden department of the KMC, the trees that are in the pull down list may fall on houses, walls or wayside shops. "We are apprehensive that some of them might fall on a pedestrian or a vehicle which may prove to be fatal," said a senior official of the P&RD department.