A (Green) Murderous Development

Anyone who has visited Hyderabad in recent times and survived the extreme pollution and heat will boil at this sad story. The city cannot afford this kind of development- a different model has to be developed, based on large-scale public transportation.

Green murder: 1,110 trees to be axed to make way for ring road project - The Economic Times: "HYDERABAD: The city is all set to lose another 1,110 trees to the Outer Ring Road (ORR) project. In a meeting held last week the tree protection committee, terming the move as 'necessary', gave the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) the go-ahead to fell these trees, most of which are four-five years old. Axing the green cover will pave the way for HMDA to take up road-widening work on the 1.3 km-long Hyderabad-Medak-Bodhan highway that will now have six lanes as against the existing two. Earlier, as per government records, nearly 5,000 trees have been felled across Hyderabad's outskirts to facilitate the same project."