Sita Reddy

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

The next few weeks are critical and we need all the support we can get. Do join our Rakshak group if you are willing to do more.

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

Why are you supporting a project which doesn’t yet have environmental clearances, @revanth_anumula? The banyans should be declared a natural heritage.

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

WE WON THE CASE!
NGT has asked NHAI to conduct an EIA before touching any of the Banyans.
This is a landmark judgment because we have no precedent of an EIA for roadside trees outside forests or reserves.

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

In a landmark judgement NGT directed NHAI to come up with an innovative road design to ensure an eco-friendly road layout. @ayesha_minhaz, reports on our data led legal campaign, and what it means to other groups who are fighting to save trees.
https://t.co/bFhGzLZMA4

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

This detailed article in @Article14live on the battle to save the Chevella banyans describes the significance of the NGT order and how it sets a precedent for other similar cases. It also explains why it is important to conserve giant trees in situ. https://t.co/Y8dVoUx3cQ

[Arvind Kumar @arvindkumar_ias]

#Bhagidari

Pl tweet @TSMAUDOnline (tag me) google pin of public open spaces (presently unattended, filled with garbage/ trash/likely to get encroached) so that we take them up for meaningful urban usage

Be the change
Let's make #Hyderabad beautiful..

@KTRBRS
@hulfoundation

[Sita Reddy @redsitared]

@OzaNandini @TelanganaCMO @ChangeOrg_India Thank you Nandini. ❤️

[Nandini K Oza @OzaNandini]

#Hyderabad returning from the state wants one to save the Banyan trees from being felled & support the citizens of Hyderabad who are fighting to save them. Do join. @TelanganaCMO : Save the banyans of Chevella - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/H0sQr2HR2H via @ChangeOrg_India

[asiya khan @asiyakhantrees]

@KTRTRS Saw it a bit late ,sir would like to know if you would declare the banyans of chevella as a heritage avenue ,crown of the haritha haram project #AskKTRSir

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

"Translocating a tree is not removing the whole tree and dropping it in another place. Translocation involves cutting branches, trimming roots, treating with chemicals, killing its soul. What is moved is most often a stump with a few branches and leaves."
https://t.co/6CqFhX9etj

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

"(On the Hyd-Vikarabad Road)..the trees have been hacked, burnt, and uprooted using earthmovers. Now, a citizens’ initiative is geo-tagging the trees to show the ecological cost of the destruction."
@serish writes on the #SaveChevellaBanyans initiative. https://t.co/ZYJdKfqXVW

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

Read the latest update to our petition on @Changeorg_India.
Please spread the word to help save the #ChevellaBanyans by requesting NHAI to replan the project to save, in situ, the best stretches with large, mature banyans.
#SaveChevellaBanyans
https://t.co/ezFK6g46qv

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

Translocation is not an option for large, mature trees. Earlier attempts, even on the same road, show that such trees have a poor chance of survival.
The only solution is to re-plan the project to retain them as medians or to totally bypass the dense stretches of banyans.

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

Our volunteers, including senior citizens and teenagers, have been out in the pouring rain and scorching sun geo-tagging and documenting all the banyans on the stretch that is proposed to be widened.
Development doesn't have to come at the cost of losing our natural heritage.

[madhulika S choudhary @madhulikaS2]

Breaking of immersion pond at Lake with an excuse of saving upstream which never happened in chinna Cheruvu Neknampur Lake.This is to help upcoming venture drizzle or to circulate fake excuse? Request authorities to see @arvindkumar_ias @KTRTRS @cdmatelangana @Prateek_JainIAS

[Sita Reddy @redsitared]

@usharaman Because it destroys such a fundamental constitutional right to autonomy over our bodies. Geography doesn’t matter, we are all American women today. And cos it also reveals the long shelf life of right wing governments, how their effects outlast their terms by decades.

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

One of the many beautiful canopies on the Chevella Road. Imagine the joy of driving through these.
Do sign our petition- https://t.co/urtuqhLLo7
If you would like to do more, reach out over DM.

[Natasha Ramarathnam (she/they) @nuts2406]

Word!

[Save Banyans of Chevella @chevellabanyans]

If @NHAI_Official is willing, we are sure solutions can be found.

[SaveKBR @CitizensForHyd]

Why #SaveChevellaBanyans

Well, see for yourself 😍👇

#ClimateChange #HeritageTrees #CenturyOld #NationalTree #Hyderabad #HyderabadFloods #9000plusTrees total #PublicTransport #1000plusBanyans #AlternateSolutionsExist
Do you need more reasons @nitin_gadkari @byadavbjp @KTRTRS