There is light at the end of the tunnel for Phase I of the Namma Metro network, and the painstaking construction work for Phase II seems to be on the horizon. However, the first victim is nearly always mute trees. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) has identified 313 trees that will make way for the construction of the extension of the current network along Kanakapura Road and Mysuru Road. By the start of the New Year, over 190 trees on Kanakapura Road (Reach 2) and 123 trees on Mysuru Road (Reach 4) are expected to be cut to make way for extensions of the lines there. Since the notification in June, the Forest Cell of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which has to...
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