Mumbai, Oct. 30 -- Mumbai BJP president Amit Satam on Friday questioned Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray over whether two lakh trees, promised as compensatory plantation for the Madhya Vaitarna dam project, were actually planted and demanded an account of the funds allocated for the purpose.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP state office, Satam said that during the period from 1997 to 2022, when the Shiv Sena was in power in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), around one lakh trees were felled for the Madhya Vaitarna dam project, although the estimated requirement was to cut 10,000 trees.
As compensation, the BMC had transferred 540 hectares of land in Beed district to the Forest Department for planting around two l...