India, June 12 -- The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) and the forest department have granted formal permission to the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) to transplant or fell 1,254 trees for the Bijwasan rail terminal project in Dwarka Sector 21.

This comes nearly four years after the forest department penalised the RLDA with Rs.5.93 crore for felling around 990 trees for the same project.

The proposed state-of-the-art terminal aims to transform Bijwasan into a major transport hub and decongest the New Delhi railway station.

Though the project faced stiff opposition from locals and activists as part of the "Save Dwarka Forest" campaign, it has received clearances from both the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Supreme Court....