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It is a serious lapse on the part of the officials that the toll-free number announced by the divisional commissioner is not working. Before making public any toll-free number, its accessibility must be ascertained twice. It was very thoughtful move to provide such facility and will be operated properly," he said.Ganesh Nirmal, a farmer from Beed district, said, "The toll-free number could have helped outstation stakeholders living in different parts of the region. If such a blunder had been committed by anybody at the lower level, we would have faced music," an official from the social forestry department said.Dilip Yardi, one of the expert members of Tree Authority of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, said such poor functioning of tree conservation cell would prove detrimental to the cause of tree plantation. It should be made active again for the benefit of remote farmers and others..