Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Shrushti Paryavaran Mandal Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 07/09/2015 regarding indiscriminate felling of trees in the reserved forest area for widening of NH – 7 Mansar at the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh carried out by the Respondents in flagrant violation of the orders of the Tribunal. 

In support of the Application the Applicant has placed on record the photographs of the sites in question showing fully grown trees been fell/cut and even the labour continuing to work on the sites to cut these trees. The newspaper published in Nagpur has reported that there is a large felling of trees between Mansar and Khawasa in Nagpur District. The area primarily falls in Bogra and Pavni range.