Mysuru, May 8 -- Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) has submitted a memorandum urging Conservator of Forests, Mysuru Circle, Dr. Malathi Priya to reconstitute a Tree Authority of Mysuru by nominating new members, which is pending since 2009.

The MGP delegation led by its Working President Shobana Sambashiva was of the view that, the absence of such a Tree Authority, gave carte blanche to the recent incident of 40-tree felling on Hyder Ali road in the city, with the Forest Department acting at its whim and fancy in granting permission to the proposal for tree felling on the road side. This was in addition to several trees cut down on the same stretch of road in the past.

In Dattagalli too, hundreds of trees are being axed to install additio...