The Maharashtra State Tree Authority will decide on Pune Municipal Corporation s proposal to cut over 7,000 trees for a riverfront development project. Tree lovers and environmental activists have opposed the project, and a meeting will be held on June 30 to discuss the matter. Green activists have taken to social media to express their discontent and appeal for the authorities to not give clearance for tree cutting in Pune.
Pune-based Sumita Kale, an economist and alumna of Cambridge University and Sushma Date, a paediatrician by profession, who are intensely pursuing a campaign to save the Vetal Tekdi hill—the largest green lung of Pune—tweeted as follows
the Vetal Tekdi Bachav Kruti Samiti, an apolitical group with the aim to save one of Pune's most valuable natural resources, has decided to go on with its scheduled Save Vetal Tekdi walk on April 15.
National vice-president of women’s wing of BJP and former legislator Medha Kulkarni has opposed the mega infrastructure project which is being promoted by Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil and former mayor Murlidhar Mohol.