As many as 431 trees, most of them decades old, are set to be removed to widen the road between Belatturu Bridge and Kannamangala Cross in East Bengaluru taluk. The road will be another bypass to the Kempegowda International Airport.
While 355 trees will be cut down, the rest will be transplanted.
The Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL), the state government agency which is widening the road, approached the Forest Department for permission to remove the trees. It also wrote to the BBMP, stating that it was ready to pay the upset price as well as fund the compensatory afforestation.
