Hyderabad environmentalists question legality and purpose of Tree Protection Committee

Several questions are being raised by city environmentalists about the legal status of the Tree Protection Committee (TPC) for the Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts, following the tree felling/translocation permissions accorded for the construction of flyovers and underpasses on the roads around the KBR National Park.

Activist Lubna Sarwath, demanding a halt to all infrastructural works around the national park, observed that the TPC is not the statutory authority to give tree-felling permissions.