Hunain Khalid
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
1,300 trees to be cut for canal road widening
LAHORE: The city to lose over 1,300 grown-up trees in the wake of canal road widening project at three sections— Thokar Niaz Beg to Doctors’ Hospital, Mall Road to Dharmpura underpass/intersections and Dharampura to Harbanspura.
According to Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) spokesman, a plan to cut trees and plant new saplings/trees has been finalised.
“From Canal View gate to Doctors’ Hospital to Sunflower Society (section-1, both sides), 657 trees will be cut/uprooted. Here we plan to plant 3,250 trees after completion of the construction work,” a PHA spokesman said in a statement on Thursday.
At section-2 (both sides) from Dharampura to Mall Road, 69 trees will be cut. In replacement, the PHA will plant 345 new saplings/trees.
At section-3 (from Dharampura to Harbanspura, there is a plan to cut 575 trees, the spokesman said and claimed: “In replacement we will plant 2,875 new trees/saplings.”
Talking to Dawn, an LDA official said the work on the canal road widening would be taken in hand by May-end.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1250673
LAHORE: The city to lose over 1,300 grown-up trees in the wake of canal road widening project at three sections— Thokar Niaz Beg to Doctors’ Hospital, Mall Road to Dharmpura underpass/intersections and Dharampura to Harbanspura.
According to Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) spokesman, a plan to cut trees and plant new saplings/trees has been finalised.
“From Canal View gate to Doctors’ Hospital to Sunflower Society (section-1, both sides), 657 trees will be cut/uprooted. Here we plan to plant 3,250 trees after completion of the construction work,” a PHA spokesman said in a statement on Thursday.
At section-2 (both sides) from Dharampura to Mall Road, 69 trees will be cut. In replacement, the PHA will plant 345 new saplings/trees.
At section-3 (from Dharampura to Harbanspura, there is a plan to cut 575 trees, the spokesman said and claimed: “In replacement we will plant 2,875 new trees/saplings.”
Talking to Dawn, an LDA official said the work on the canal road widening would be taken in hand by May-end.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1250673
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