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Hartal against tree felling total

By Our Staff Reporter

MAHE, MARCH 31. Business activities came to a standstill as a result of a hartal observed here today to protest against the felling of large number of trees from the Tagore Park on the southern bank of the Mayyazhi river.

All shops in the town remained closed in response to the hartal call by the Tagore Park Samrakshana Samithy to condemn the axing of nearly 30 huge trees in the park in the early hours yesterday by workers of a private firm that had been handed over the park by the authorities on lease. Road traffic was exempted from the hartal. Government offices functioned under the protection of the police.

The trees had been felled by a group of workers who reached the spot in three jeeps in the wee hours on Tuesday. Police had stopped some of the samithy activists who rushed to the park on hearing about the cutting down of the trees.

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