Green group backs experts on Aarey vote

MUMBAI: National Society of the Friends of Trees on Friday backed a decision by members, Dr Chandrakant Salunke (head of horticulture department, BARC) and Dr Sashirekha Sureshkumar (associate professor and head of department of botany, Mithibai College) to resign from the civic tree authority panel.

It said one expert at the committee meeting said they were misguided on the issue placed for voting amid confusion over a proposal to axe over 2,000 trees at

Aarey

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