Secretariat trees may not be saved Updated: Updated: NGO pulls out of initiative Share Article NGO pulls out of initiative Most of the giant decades-old trees on the secretariat premises may not be saved from felling after all. Vata Foundation, the voluntary organisation, which had offered to translocate the trees, free of cost, has stopped work two days ago after moving about 18 trees to a private land in Shamshabad in huge trailers. This was in protest against the departments concerned seeking ₹1,000 each for the eight trees by the agency for “illegally” translocating them along with the 10 trees that were officially permitted!