NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the DDA about the measures undertaken to restore the Delhi Ridge area, where several hundred trees were allegedly felled illegally, and sought the extent of plantation done by the authorities.
Observing it would introduce a monitoring system to ensure planted trees were surviving, a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra wondered if any independent mechanism was in place to ascertain the number of trees planted.
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