This story is from October 30, 2014

Kalindi Kunj Metro route to uproot over 200 rare plants

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's Botanical Garden-Kalindi Kunj route will cause a relocation of several ornamental and medicinal plants in the garden as they fall in the proposed route.
Kalindi Kunj Metro route to uproot over 200 rare plants
NOIDA: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's Botanical Garden-Kalindi Kunj route will cause a relocation of several ornamental and medicinal plants in the garden as they fall in the proposed route.
Officials at Botanical Garden said the route would affect 160 fully grown and 100 smaller plants that need relocation.
The garden in Sector 38A, sprawling across 160 acres, had been built as a repository of rare plants brought from different parts of India.
The existing Rajiv Chowk-Noida City Centre Metro line already crosses over and occupies a large part of the garden, where there is no plantation. About 1km of the proposed Botanical Garden-Kalindi Kunj route will now pass through the garden.
Sheo Kumar, a scientist in charge of the garden, said, he has informed the DMRC officials about the plants that need to be relocated. "We have submitted a report to the DMRC. This is a DMRC project and the resettlement will be done by them," he said. Large plants including lannea coromandelica, wrightia tinctoria, lagerstroemia, pterocarpus marsupium, terminalia arjuna, lannea coromandelica will be moved.
DMRC officials said they have already identified the alignment inside the Botanical Garden and garden authorities are aware of it. They, however, said the number of plants that need to be transplanted would be lesser than 160.
"Some 40 plants are to be transplanted and DMRC has requested the Botanical Garden authorities to execute the work; Delhi Metro will bear the cost of relocation," Tomojit Bhattacharjee, DMRC spokesperson, said.

DMRC workers have started digging in the garden since the project has been scheduled to complet by 2017.
Experts feel the relocation of grown trees is a difficult task as it needs specialized people and sophisticated technology. Choosing a suitable location for resettlement is very important for the plants' survival. Arun Pandey, professor of Botany at Delhi University, said relocating old trees is difficult because of their size and weight. The trees must be placed under intensive care, before, during and after transplanting.
K K Singh, divisional forest officer of Gautam Buddh Nagar, said if the trees are large then their branches need to be pruned. "We do not have sophisticated technologies, hence the plants will be uprooted with JCBs. We will try to transplant all the trees with utmost care," he said. The transplantation work is yet to start.
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