Only 121, or 30%, of the 404 trees transplanted for the “Proposed Expansion and Restoration of the existing Parliament Building at Plot No. 118,” a part of the Central Vista project, according to information provided to the Delhi High Court by the city’s Forest Department, survived. According to the reports, the details were contained in an affidavit that the Forest department provided to the High Court in May of this year.
The Central Public Works Department’s calculation and the estimate provided by the Forest Department are drastically different from one another (CPWD). According to the CPWD’s estimation, 266 trees made it through the transplantation, the report stated.
102 out of 130 trees at the site of the new Parliament building and 165 out of 272 trees in the NTPC Eco Park, Badarpur, were still alive as of the last report we gave in May 2022, a CPWD official told the news outlet.
According to the research, only 5,487, or 33.33%, of the approximately 16,461 trees that were transplanted in the city’s other transplanting sites over the course of the past three years have so far survived.
According to the study, the overall survival percentage that the forest department discovered was lower than the rate of 41.17% that user agencies who performed transplants for city infrastructure projects had predicted.
6,777 trees have survived thus far, according to the information provided by user agencies. The benchmark tree survival rate after a year of tree transplantation must be 80% or as otherwise announced by the department, according to the Delhi government’s Tree Transplantation Policy, which was published in 2020. With a provision for a penalty for tree survival rates below the benchmark rate, the technical agency’s final payment will be based on the accomplished tree survival rate.
The reconciliation of data “will take at least two months as there has been a disparity in survival rate given by user agency and forest department,” according to the declaration of the Forest department.
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