Govt decides to cut over 13000 trees for gas project

The Cabinet on Monday gave permission for cutting and removal of 13,356 trees of the natural and generated forests under the Forest Department for implementation of the construction gas distribution pipeline from Sreepur to Joydevpur by the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited.

About 4,011 woody trees and 9,345 small trees would be fallen for construction of the three-kilometer gas pipeline, reports BSS.

The decision was made in a cabinet meeting, after the forest department placed the proposal to cut down the trees, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

After the meeting, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Cabinet Secretary confirmed the matter to the journalists.

Titas gas would have to plant double trees in the area to compensate the loss of felling trees in the area, the cabinet decided.