Summary:
Pruning of the trees in hot summer days near the bus stand had left many passengers and an NGO fuming. As these trees were providing valuable shade and protection to a large number of passengers and rickshaw pullers these days, the hard pruning and axing of main branches of these trees left them shocked and deprived of shade. All these full-grown four mulberry trees were standing in front of the residence-cum-hospital of the doctor. It is alleged that hard pruning of these trees in these hot summer days was aimed at uprooting them from the front side of the doctor’s residence. “Leaves provide food to the trees and maintain the temperature so it is not ideal to prune them in hot summer days..