Summary:
In fact, he blamed the departments to cut the trees. All the trees are located on open spaces or away from the main building housing several departments and library. The junior engineer said the PWD had hired labourers to carry out routine sweeping and upkeep of the campus.Initially, Padhye admitted that some trees were ‘trimmed’ but when asked if NMC permission was sought, the junior engineer backtracked and denied that the PWD cut trees. In continuation of those orders, they had asked the PWD to look into the issue. The identification of all trees couldn’t be done on Tuesday.TOI found that the big trees including Pepul, Cassia and Subabool were brought down over the last couple of days..