Citing snake menace, employees of civic body do away with 50 'small trees' near water supply department in Swargate

The civic body is flouting its own rules. About 50 small trees were given the axe by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) workers of the water supply department in Swargate. "The civic body is flouting its own rules which states that no one should be allowed to cut trees and permission should be taken if it's imperative to do away with them," said Vaibhav Gandhi, an environmentalist.


Decapitated: The stumps of two of the trees that were cut down by
PMC employees outside the civic body's water supply centre in Swargate.
Pic/Vivek sabnis

Gandhi said old pictures of the place outside the water supply centre proved that once there were lots of small trees on the spot.The Swaragate water supply centre has not been functional for the last 10 years and is being used as a storage place for the water department.