Garhshankar 06 Feb -Solar company has cleared more than 200 acres of forest area and cut thousands of trees in five villages Bhawanipur, Achalpur, Bhawanipur Bhakta, Kanewal, Ratanpur for installation of solar panels. Bhawanipur Sarpanch Harjinder Singh, Captain Rajinder Singh, Amrik Singh, Balveer Singh, Sokhi, Mahendra Singh, Sardara Singh, Bhag Singh, Joga Singh, Kala, Ram Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Jarnail Singh, Telu Ram, Jeet Singh were present on this occasion. .
On this occasion, Shamsher Singh, Hardeep Singh, Manveer Singh, Sandeep Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Harshdeep Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Simardeep Singh, Rakesh Singh said that a solar company in the forest adjacent to Chandpur Roorkee, with the approval of the Forest Department and the concerned Panchayats. Solar system has been installed without it And being installed without informing the owners, the company has completely cleared about 200 acres of forest. This area comes under Section 4 and 5 of the Forest Act. This area also includes the private and panchayat areas of the above five villages. Hundreds of trees standing at this place have been cut down without any permission. People demand that appropriate action be taken against the concerned company.
When DFO Harbhajan Singh was contacted in this regard, he said that the company has applied for permission, we are investigating the entire matter. And they have issued a notice to the company for felling the forest without the company's approval.