Process to Remove Tree for construction

[msn1270]

Magblr

Simple reason, why no one giving you the right answer is that, You are not ready to even think of option B.
No one is happy with your selfish-adamant attitude of killing two valueable trees forever.

R u a vastu believer.?? I have read about couple of vastu consultants who give such idiotic suggestions to
remove the trees which are in the front/side of the plot for building a concrete box.

[magblr]

Hi msn,

I have been in this forum from MSN days and respect you for being a very serious contributor for this forum. First thing is I just want to know the process and I have never ever said I will ensure the trees will be removed.I am also looking at other options even before you suggested for your information.

I am a born Bangalorean and know how this city has be tormented in last 10-15 years.I do appreciate your concern and respect that.

Please dont be judgemental on some one. Iam sure the concerned authorities also know what has to done and let them decide I will only bring it to there notice.

Regards,
magblr

[BengaluruBoy]

I wish I had two huge trees infront of my site. Unfortunately, there was none and I have planted 2 saplings that will take atleast 10-15 years to get matured. I can't imagine people cutting down trees for dead leaves falling near the house. I love when that happens as it gives very rustic look.

I have seen many people cutting down trees for dry leaves or car parking or just to get their stupid concrete box to be more visible from curb. At the same time they complain about heat, no rain, no water, air pollution etc more importantly (for them ) they look for other trees to park their cars in summer

I think, in our country, educated and uneducated people doesn't make any difference. Lastly, I know the procedure but my conscience won't allow me to share such ideas. I have fought with many people when they were cutting down healthy trees. I was successful in stopping only 1-2% of the cases.

[BengaluruBoy]

"R u a vastu believer.?? I have read about couple of vastu consultants who give such idiotic suggestions to
remove the trees which are in the front/side of the plot for building a concrete box."

msn - I totally agree with you. Many stupid vastu guys give such ideas if the tree is on east or north. though I believe in vastu to certain extent where it also make sense from the scientific perspective, I have never listned to them when it came to cutting down the trees as the benefit from the trees will far exceed any ill-effect from wrong vastu.

[sriram]

Its good to know that there are people like BengaluruBoy and MSN. I hope more people take up educating people about the negative effects of ruthless cutting of trees. It really pains me a lot when I see very old and huge trees being felled for road widening, parking for shops, etc. I guess its not legal to fell trees in front of shops//restaurants for parking (better facade) purpose but I guess the owners get it done by bribing. Suranjan Das road (which connects Old Madras Road and Old airport road) had such old and nice trees but most of the trees were felled for road widening and the stupid MLA of that area Raghu put up his poster taking credit for the road work! And we go ga ga and call this as DEVELOPMENT. What is the use of such development which is based on ruthless exploitation of nature just for satisfying our wanton desires? Vedic/Indian civilization is a God centric civilization based on compassion for other living beings and not on exploitation. Sorry for diverting from the topic.

[msn1270]

Magblr,

Still I can't forget the picture of last year April-May Season, where one of the senior citizen collapsed without bearing the summer heat near Anekar Motors/Indian Petrol Bunk on Magadi Road. Fellow Citizens who came forward to help him were literally searching for a Tree shade/comfort space to relocate him for feeding him water and air. There is no proper Footpath or Trees available in that stretch due to metro project.

It really hurts me if someone think of removing the trees. Today I can't even find a Single Tree between Malleshwara MD Block Junction till Modi Junction(everything sacrificed for Metro Work). Same situation on Magadi Road, MG Road, Old Madras Road, Indira Nagar & many more areas due to commercialization. Being responsible Citizens, Its time for us to rethink, are we Developing or destroying our surrounding in the name of Development??

I feel(SO), you can dig such information yourselves instead of depending on some one else to feed you in first place.
Nowadays many information can be accessed by Googling online. Next thing you need to be proactive in contacting them or visiting them.

For Basic Information on Tree cutting, Visit http://karnatakaforest.gov.in/English/faq/faq.htm

For your particular need, as pvr59ksl mentioned, you have to contact the BBMP office. Call BBMP helpline (Hope you don't expect someone else to share that no) for the right contact info.

[mathew73]

I wish I had two huge trees infront of my site. Unfortunately, there was none and I have planted 2 saplings that will take atleast 10-15 years to get matured. I can't imagine people cutting down trees for dead leaves falling near the house. I love when that happens as it gives very rustic look.

I have seen many people cutting down trees for dry leaves or car parking or just to get their stupid concrete box to be more visible from curb. At the same time they complain about heat, no rain, no water, air pollution etc more importantly (for them ) they look for other trees to park their cars in summer

I think, in our country, educated and uneducated people doesn't make any difference. Lastly, I know the procedure but my conscience won't allow me to share such ideas. I have fought with many people when they were cutting down healthy trees. I was successful in stopping only 1-2% of the cases.

Hi BengaluruBoy, well said !!!! I like it..

[ardesarchitects]

Hi Magblr
from your first post i understand you are about to start the construction .I can only suggest one thing ...re plan your building entries .
(suggestions are easy & executions are tough )
I am very positive that you can save tree for sure and compensate the other in case , by planting 3 -4 saplings in a convenient location and take care of it till they grow matured .

I think a tree is must for any building to look more beautiful ,have you ever seen any building 3d with out trees but 95% of builders just plant some show plants and market them as gardens.Every apartment buyer should insist the builders to grow trees not just plants in their maintenance period .For smaller apartments they can plant on the road side.

"NOTE TO ADMINS"
Why don't we ( mybdasites members )take up an online campaign on save trees/rainwater harvesting .Since there are many techno guys here we can reach to every corner of Bangalore.Some one interested can make posters and pass it on to admins.you can ask your kids to paint nice posters and put it on the forum.Lets make this summer greener.

Regards
Ar.Praveen.N
Ardes Architects and Interior Designers
ardesarchitects@gmail.com
www.ardesarchitects.com

[maheshvivid2003]

it is a good inciative

i love some areas like basvangudi jayanagar in these places we see lot of old tress and for evry 20feet ther is a tree have bigger plots and wide roads so have space for tress and near my house the road is 25ft wide and hardly ther is a footpath and now a days we see lot of cars parked outside the house n i dont know wther i have a chance to plant small tree in front of the house

ya as praveen sir said in gated community and apartments and some layouts have wider roads have lot of scope for planting trees and it can be disscussed with the associations

i thought of some idea may be just a campaign called "my tree" ..if each one of us or each household plant a tree and maintain n water them till it grows just create a thread and post pics planting tress in front of the house and platform might be this forum or social media ....we ourselves should start this

[krish]

Glad to see the constructive discussion about our environment. I commute around 20km + 20km daily to my work and today when coming back, I was thinking about how the climate was hotting up year by year in Bangalore. I was actually thinking to discuss with my family about putting drinking water pot for commuters in our area for the summer.

But Praveen's idea is good. Why dont we start an online campaign? We can actually create separate section for this campaign in this forum and we can do our bit to the environment. Ofcourse, you must all have remembered the story of old man earning by just planting a mango sapling during Akbar's period. So, why dont we do something like that so that our Bangalore will retain its glory as 'Cool City'. We need not create new ponds or other water bodies but we can at least preserve the existing water bodies by brining awareness and raising concerns with authorities when we see any wrong doings around the ponds?

The floor is open. Please share your views and ideas about how we as a forum members can do our bit to environment?