Jaipur : The Rajasthan High Court has sought a reply from the Chief Secretary, Environment Director, Additional Collector and the SDO and Tehsildar of Sambhar Lake and the developer agency on beginning the method of reducing a complete of 617 timber together with 565 Khejri timber to construct a multi-cargo terminal beneath the Railway’s Gati Shakti Yojana at Hirnoda in Sambhar-Phulera tehsil. A division bench of CJ MM Srivastava and Justice Ashutosh Kumar gave this order whereas listening to the preliminary listening to on the PIL filed by the Meridian Foundation Trust.
The petition stated that beneath the Gati Shakti Yojana of Railways, it’s proposed to construct a multi-cargo terminal in Hirnoda. This terminal is being constructed by Hasti Petro Chemical and Shipping Ltd. There are a complete of 617 inexperienced timber on the land the place this terminal shall be constructed, together with 565 of the state tree Khejri. To take away them, the corporate submitted an utility to the subdivision officer of Sambhar Lake and sought permission. On July 4, the ADM gave conditional permission to chop these timber. One situation on this was that the corporate would plant 5 occasions the peak of ten ft instead of the reduce timber.
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It was stated within the petition that earlier than giving permission to chop timber, no such choice was explored, in order that fewer timber may very well be reduce. Apart from this, permission to chop timber was given on the situation of planting 5 occasions extra timber i.e. 3085 timber. Whereas on August 7, the Tehsildar wrote a letter to the upper authorities and knowledgeable about planting 5 hundred timber on behalf of the corporate. In the petition, it was requested that the NOC given for reducing timber and the public sale order issued by the administration for reducing timber ought to be cancelled. Hearing on which, the division bench has summoned the reply from the involved officers.
