<p>Mysuru: Mysore City Corporation has cleared concretisation of the bases of 108 trees on a stretch of 11.44km on 8 major roads of Mysuru city after DCF Mysuru territorial division, K N Basavaraju issued directions in this regard following a report in <em>DH. </em></p><p>One metre space around tree bases on 1.6 km stretch on Bengaluru-Nilgiri Road – from Five Lights Circle to Fountain Circle as been cleared; 3.09 km stretch of Nelson Mandela Road and Sayyaji Rao Road – from LIC Circle to KR Hospital; 630 metre stretch on Dewans Road; 4.01 km stretch on Vinobha Road; 600 metre stretch on Irwin Road; 170 metre stretch on Bogadi Road; 840 metre stretch from Andolana Circle to Anikethana Road; and 50 metre stretch on Vishwamanava Road in Kuvempu Nagar. MCC Commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif informed <em>DH</em>.</p>.Mysuru: MNREGA employees stage protest, demand payment of pending 7-month salaries.<p>"There were 339 trees on these roads and among them 108 tree bases which were covered, have been cleared," said, MCC Development Commissioner K J Sindhu said. </p>.<p>MCC Commissioner Asif added that they are in the process of attending to the legacy errors to clear all tree bases one by one in the entire city. </p><p>MCC has even taken permanent steps to prevent concretisation of tree bases in the city in future. MCC has approved a council decision that any person who concretises trees have to deconcritise within months post which they will impose a fine of Rs 2000. Also they have decided that, henceforth all work orders will have conditions that the contractor will restore breathing space for water absorption.</p><p>An article published in <em>DH</em> on May 12 2025 had highlighted how most of the tree bases on roadsides in Mysuru are covered with concrete, tar or interlocked pavements, affecting their health, growth, survival with inadequate aeration and percolation of water and nutrition to their roots. It had highlighted judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sahil Garg Vs State of Punjab that mandates that one-metre radius around the tree base be left un-concretised and filled with soil to facilitate percolation of water to the roots to promote its health and survival. </p><p>Followed by Report DCF Mysuru territorial division, K N Basavaraju had written a letter to MCC Commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif asking him to take measures to de-concretise trees on priority in these eight major roads of the city which they have already surveyed. </p><p>Meanwhile in a major development, Minister for Environment, Ecology and Forests Eshwar B Khandre has also passed an order on May 22, directing officials to take measures to concretisation of roadside tree bases in all the cities of the State.</p>
<p>Mysuru: Mysore City Corporation has cleared concretisation of the bases of 108 trees on a stretch of 11.44km on 8 major roads of Mysuru city after DCF Mysuru territorial division, K N Basavaraju issued directions in this regard following a report in <em>DH. </em></p><p>One metre space around tree bases on 1.6 km stretch on Bengaluru-Nilgiri Road – from Five Lights Circle to Fountain Circle as been cleared; 3.09 km stretch of Nelson Mandela Road and Sayyaji Rao Road – from LIC Circle to KR Hospital; 630 metre stretch on Dewans Road; 4.01 km stretch on Vinobha Road; 600 metre stretch on Irwin Road; 170 metre stretch on Bogadi Road; 840 metre stretch from Andolana Circle to Anikethana Road; and 50 metre stretch on Vishwamanava Road in Kuvempu Nagar. MCC Commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif informed <em>DH</em>.</p>.Mysuru: MNREGA employees stage protest, demand payment of pending 7-month salaries.<p>"There were 339 trees on these roads and among them 108 tree bases which were covered, have been cleared," said, MCC Development Commissioner K J Sindhu said. </p>.<p>MCC Commissioner Asif added that they are in the process of attending to the legacy errors to clear all tree bases one by one in the entire city. </p><p>MCC has even taken permanent steps to prevent concretisation of tree bases in the city in future. MCC has approved a council decision that any person who concretises trees have to deconcritise within months post which they will impose a fine of Rs 2000. Also they have decided that, henceforth all work orders will have conditions that the contractor will restore breathing space for water absorption.</p><p>An article published in <em>DH</em> on May 12 2025 had highlighted how most of the tree bases on roadsides in Mysuru are covered with concrete, tar or interlocked pavements, affecting their health, growth, survival with inadequate aeration and percolation of water and nutrition to their roots. It had highlighted judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sahil Garg Vs State of Punjab that mandates that one-metre radius around the tree base be left un-concretised and filled with soil to facilitate percolation of water to the roots to promote its health and survival. </p><p>Followed by Report DCF Mysuru territorial division, K N Basavaraju had written a letter to MCC Commissioner Sheikh Tanveer Asif asking him to take measures to de-concretise trees on priority in these eight major roads of the city which they have already surveyed. </p><p>Meanwhile in a major development, Minister for Environment, Ecology and Forests Eshwar B Khandre has also passed an order on May 22, directing officials to take measures to concretisation of roadside tree bases in all the cities of the State.</p>
