After the Delhi government’s tree transplantation policy was notified in December last year, making transplantation mandatory for projects that will replace trees, around 40 such projects have been given approval to transplant trees.
Since January this year, the project that has been approved to transplant the largest number of trees is the National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II). The project is slated to displace around 6,000 trees, of which nearly 4,000 will be transplanted, according to an official of the Forest Department. The UER-II is a Ring Road that will connect NH-1, NH-2, NH-8, and NH-10, and will pass through Najafgarh, Rohini and Dwarka.
