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Meghalaya: 4000 trees to be cut for crucial road project

Shillong, Apr 22 (UNI) More than 4000 trees will have to be cut in a reserved and deemed forest area, home to a large number of wildlife, for a crucial road improvement and widening project in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills.
The advisory committee of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has granted ‘in-principle’ approval for the diversion of 34.88 hectares of reserved and deemed forest area in East and North Garo Hills districts for improvement and widening of National Highway 127B road project under Bharatmala Pariyojana.
The Darugiri–Songsak–Williamnagar junction connects Meghalaya’s state capital Shillong via West Khasi Hills to East and North Garo Hills, bypassing Assam’s main city of Guwahati.
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