India, Feb. 20 -- After repeated complaints about tree cutting on forest land at Punawale in Pimpri-Chinchwad and a demand by the member of legislative assembly (MLA) to build an oxygen park there, the forest department has initiated an oxygen park project in the reserve forest at Punawale. A proposal for the same has been submitted to the district collector in the last week of January, and we are likely to get permission for the same by the end of February, said a senior forest official. Meanwhile to prevent unauthorised tree cutting, the forest department is also planning to build a compound around the reserve forest area to restrict entry into the forest area.

The reserve forest land at survey number 23 in Punawale is an area with den...