SRINAGAR, April 3 -- In compliance to orders passed by the High Court J&K in Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Nos-834/2015, 1637/2015 & 976/2016, the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir Pandurang K Pole, today chaired a meeting to discuss the pollen related infections in wake of already spread of COVID-19 and to work-out the strategy and measures to get rid of this menace before the onset of flowering season across the valley.

The Divisional Commissioner directed all Deputy Commissioners and concerned officers to enforce complete ban on plantation and growing of female Russian poplar trees in private Nurseries in compliance of High Court orders.

He further directed that pruning, lopping of female poplar trees on property land within 500 me...