Key Highlights
- On the other side of the road, stands a large banyan, its trunk burning beneath the fresh ash pile at the base.
- Glowing embers are noticeable only upon a much closer inspection.
- It’s one among the banyans of Chevella which were saved from being axed/translocated after a prolonged legal battle in the National Green Tribunal.
- As a compromise worked out between the National Highways Authority of India and the petitioners representing the citizens’ campaign ‘Save Banyans of Chevella’, the NHAI agreed to retain 765 banyan trees where they were, and translocate 150 to the shoulder of the road to facilitate the widening of the tortuous highway.
- The tree which is freshly on fire is numbered 734 in the Google Maps link, where all banyan trees on the 48.5 kilometre route were marked by the Nature Lovers of Hyderabad, which spearheaded the campaign.
