The Delhi government has approved removal and transplantation of trees for the construction of an Integrated Defence Staff Headquarters in Mehram Nagar, according to an official statement on Thursday. The government has mandated compensatory plantation of trees 10 times the number to be affected by the project. According to the statement, 60 trees will be transplanted and 54 removed for the project. The new Integrated Defence Staff Headquarters will come up soon in Delhi Cantonment. It will house a new officers’ mess and a camp. The Defence Ministry had sent a proposal to remove and transplant 114 trees.
