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Emergency tree felling SOP issued
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|June 07, 2025
Environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday issued a detailed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) under Section 8 of the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act (DPTA), 1994 — formally defining what qualifies as an 'emergency' in which trees may be pruned or felled without prior permission, and laying out compliance requirements to prevent misuse.
NEW DELHI:
The move, Sirsa said, seeks to enable swift action in genuine cases of public risk while creating a transparent system. However, environmental groups warned that the provision has historically been misused to justify indiscriminate tree removal under vague pretexts.
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