{"id":407204,"date":"2021-03-26T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407204"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T05:32:03","slug":"sc-sets-up-panel-to-recommend-norms-to-cut-trees-for-development-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-sets-up-panel-to-recommend-norms-to-cut-trees-for-development-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"SC sets up panel to recommend norms to cut trees for development projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConservation of nature must be viewed as part of development and not as a factor stultifying development\u201d, the Supreme Court said Thursday, setting up a seven-member expert committee to recommend policy guidelines for cutting of trees for developmental projects.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will be headed by M K Ranjitsinh Jwala, wildlife expert and former Chairman of the Wildlife Trust of India.<\/p>\n<p>The order came in a matter pertaining to felling of trees of ages upto 150 years for Road Over Bridges and road widening projects in West Bengal. <\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde and also comprising A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramainan referred to a report submitted to it,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConservation of nature must be viewed as part of development and not as a factor stultifying development\u201d, the Supreme Court said Thursday, setting up a seven-member expert committee to recommend policy guidelines for cutting of trees for developmental projects. The committee will be headed by M K Ranjitsinh Jwala, wildlife expert and former Chairman of the Wildlife Trust of India. The order came in a matter pertaining to felling of trees of ages upto 150 years for Road Over Bridges and road widening projects in West Bengal. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}