Sangrur: PWD chops trees for road widening, residents hold one-minute silence in protest

Alleging that the Public Works Department (PWD) has been massacring the trees in the city in the name of development projects, the residents of Sangrur city gathered Sunday on Kali Devi Temple road and held one-minute silence to condemn the axing of trees.

Jasinder Sekhon, a city resident, said that recently PWD has chopped 26 fully grown trees on Kali Devi Temple road and more than 300 trees at different locations have been axed in a similar way in the past three years in Sangrur city but PWD officials fail to provide any valid justification for massacring city’s green cover.

“Twenty-six fully grown trees have been axed on Kali Devi Temple road in Sangrur where almost 150 city residents gathered today and expressed anguish on the unwarranted felling of the trees.