No pavers around trees, MC told

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 15

The Standing Committee of the UT Administrator’s Advisory Council on Environment has strongly recommended that the use of paver blocks should be discouraged in the city.

Acting on the recommendation, the Department of Environment has written to the Municipal Corporation and other stakeholders against installing paver blocks around the trees and strictly follow the green action plan of the UT while landscaping.

Rahul Mahajan, a social activist, said with pavers around, trees in the city were dying unnatural death. He added that pavers and tiles block aeration of trees and plants.

The panel formed under the chairmanship of former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal recommended that old pavers should be used wherever required and no fresh tenders be issued.

Notably, the MC House had yesterday approved tender worth crores for paver blocks.

Bansal said there was a need to formulate an advisory committee on landscaping of the city, which would decide issues like paver blocks.