Ludhiana, Dec. 22 -- Students at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) are protesting the university's plan to cut trees for the proposed widening of the road in front of the university's Mohinder Singh Randhawa Library. In a protest, students have taken to social media to highlight the dissonance between the university's credentials as an agricultural university and cutting trees.

Writing on Instagram, university student Simranjeet Singh, said, "The decision to uproot nearly 100 trees for road widening in our university is deeply disappointing. An institution meant to protect agriculture and nature should be encouraging tree plantation, not destroying green cover. Such actions raise serious concerns about misplaced priorities and growing...