UP Cuts Over 1.8L Trees For Bundelkhand Expressway, To Plant 2.7L Trees

The Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA), in a reply to an RTI, has stated that it will plant over 2.70 lakh saplings along the Bundelkhand expressway. The exercise is aimed at compensating the loss of 1,89,036 tress, which were cut for the construction of the 296-km-long expressway. The expressway is expected to provide better connectivity between the Bundelkhand area of the state and the NCR.