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Saturday, Apr 30, 2005

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MCC begins pruning of trees

Staff Correspondent

MYSORE: The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has launched a tree-trimming programme in the city to ensure that branches of trees do not obstruct streetlights.

The corporation recently took up a survey to identify trees whose branches block streetlights. The pruning, which is expected to continue for one month, was formally started on Friday with the authorities trimming the branches of trees in front of the corporation offices on Sayyaji Rao Road. According to the Mayor, Dakshinamurthy, there are 18,000 streetlights in the city and trees obstruct hundreds of them.

The tree-trimming programme will continue on Saturday with the authorities pruning trees on Chamaraja Double Road, Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Road and CPC Polytechnic Road.

The corporation, based on complaints from the public, constituted a team to survey the trees whose branches were blocking light from the streetlights. The team was constituted in consultation with the Commissioner of Police, Pravin Sood; the corporation Commissioner, A.B. Ibrahim; the MESCOM Executive Engineer, Govindaraju; and the Range Forest Officer, Varadaraju.

Mr. Dakshinamurthy acknowledged the cooperation of police, forest, and MESCOM officials in the exercise.

Meanwhile, the pruning of trees has been lauded by a section of the public, which had expressed apprehension over the possibility of weak branches of trees collapsing during the rainy season. The pruning of trees is expected to reduce the possibility of weak branches collapsing during heavy rain and endangering life and property.

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