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| Photo Credit: M_Periasamymore-inOver 30 volunteers of Coimbatore District Road Protection Association worked for nearly two hours on Sunday morning, removing the flex boards, advertisement boards, and nails from trees along Mettupalayam road from Thudiyalur to Raachipalayam Pirivu. Members of Coimbatore District Roads Protection Association removing an advertisement board nailed to a tree at Thudiyalur on Mettupalayam Road in the city on Sunday. The association appealed to the district administration and other stake holders – local bodies, Forest Department - to prevent repeated incidents of fixing advertisement boards on trees. The association removed a lorry load of flex boards and nails from the trees and disposed them of safely, Mr.
Devendran said. The association appealed to the National Highways to help transplant 148 trees while taking up the road widening project on this stretch..