Thousands of trees have been felled for widening Dhanbad’s roads in a classic case of development clashing with the environment, and work on planting trees as replacement has been lagging.
Sample this: 2,063 trees have been chopped for the ongoing work of making the 32.75km Govindpur-Mahuda road a four-lane one. A total of 3,142 trees will be felled by the time the Rs 180-crore state highway authority project, which began in September 2017 and is being executed by Ranchi-based Ram Kripal Singh Construction Pvt Ltd, is completed.
Around 5,088 trees are to be felled to make the 20km stretch from Kako Math in Katras to the Gol Building in Dhanbad an eight-lane one. Work on the Rs 416-crore, World Bunk-funded state highway authority project began this week.
