The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), on average, receives nearly 80 applications every month from private landowners for felling either avenue trees in front of their properties or trees standing inside these private lands.

“We have been receiving 15-20 applications from citizens every week to cut either avenue trees or trees on their private properties. In the past few days, this number has gone down due to ongoing procedural aspects of GBA,” said a GBA official.

The issue of permission granted to private land owners for felling trees has gathered spotlight after a recent incident in which a jewellery shop on Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Rajarajeshwarinagar, attempted to cut a healthy avenue tree with permission from the Tree Expert Committee (TEC). However, after locals staged a protes

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