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New Body To Protect City's Green CoverBy sachiv, Section Environment
To protect the green cover in the city, a group of environmentalists and botanists have come together to form the Green Pune Protection Committee.
Speaking at a press conference at Empress garden on Sunday, Suresh Pingle, honorary secretary of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western Maharashtra and a member of the green committee, said, "There are a lot of places with greenery in the city, such as the University of Pune and the National Defence Academy campuses. However, often, because of the interference of the bureaucracy, there is a threat to the green cover in the name of development. Nobody can question this. With this in mind, we have decided to form the body, which will act as a watchdog of the green cover." The Agri-horticultural Society of Western Maharashtra is the managing body of the Empress garden. Senior botanist Shridhar Mahajan, wellknown ornithologist Prakash Gole, industrialist Suman Kirloskar and a few journalists have come forward to form the committee, Pingle informed. Click on "Full Story" for more...
"Parties with vested interests destroy the greenery in such places, which is absolutely illegal," Pingle said. The committee will also issue legal notices if needed, he added.
Pingle was referring to the state government's recent plan of selling the 22-acre land of the Empress garden to the turf club, which had to be dropped after the managing body of the garden resisted the move. Similarly, the Khadki Botanical Garden is also under threat from urbanisation, Pingle stated. Speaking about recent development in the Empress garden, Pingle said, "We have planted 125 rare indigenous tress, as well as a few botanical and ayurvedic ones." Initially known as Soldiers' garden, Empress garden was given its current name in 1892. From 1830 till the present, it has been managed by the Agri-horticultural Society of Western Maharashtra, and is as much a recreational retreat as a showhouse of botanical splendour. Source: TOI, 23/06/08
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