{"id":424767,"date":"2021-07-07T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424767"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:29:04","slug":"4431-trees-felled-for-mumbai-pune-e-way-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/4431-trees-felled-for-mumbai-pune-e-way-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"4,431 trees felled for Mumbai-Pune E-way expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 4,431 trees have been felled to make way for the upcoming \u2018missing link\u2019 on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway to connect the Khopoli exit on the existing highway to Sinhagad Institute near Lonavala. The tree felling was in violation of stage-1 forest clearance granted to the project, the minutes of a recent meeting of the regional empowered committee (Nagpur), constituted by the Union environment ministry, has revealed. <\/p>\n<p>The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) had been granted stage-1 clearance to divert 75 hectares (ha) of forest land for the project in Raigad and Pune districts on February 6, 2019 \u201csubject to fulfilment of certain conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 4,431 trees have been felled to make way for the upcoming \u2018missing link\u2019 on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway to connect the Khopoli exit on the existing highway to Sinhagad Institute near Lonavala. The tree felling was in violation of stage-1 forest clearance granted to the project, the minutes of a recent meeting of the regional empowered committee (Nagpur), constituted by the Union environment ministry, has revealed. The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) had been granted stage-1 clearance to divert 75 hectares (ha) of forest land for the project in Raigad and Pune districts on February 6, 2019 \u201csubject [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424767","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=424767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}