Bhopal, May 28 -- A massive environmental violation has surfaced in the Neelbad area of Bhopal, where approximately 700 trees were felled in the catchment area to make way for a cricket stadium and road construction, without obtaining the mandatory environmental and planning clearances.
The cricket stadium, part of a large infrastructure project under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, is currently under construction. However, in a blatant bypass of protocol, neither approval from the Town and Country Planning (T&CP) Department nor an environmental impact assessment was secured before the deforestation began.
According to environmental regulations, any construction activity that requires the cutting of more than 25 trees must go ...