The National Highway Development Project is the government's pet. One such stretch being developed is National Highway 8 linking Jaipur to Ajmer and on to Mumbai and beyond. The highway was being widened near the town of Bagru. The bulldozers were out. The process was laboured. The trees were massive. They needed labour to be killed, then chopped into pieces and carried away. To remove their last remnants, the roots were dug out of the ground. It was then cleared and paved, ready to be laid. This work is also called progress.
The trees
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/death-neem-tree
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/neem
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/highways
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/legislation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rajasthan
