Updated On: 04 July, 2024 04:04 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
It is always heartening when green preservation efforts include politicians and top-tier decision makers. For too long, environment has seen a push ’n’ pull between NGOs, some activists, and politicians, at times builders with a political lobby

Trees on the plot, OS-7, at Pawane in Navi Mumbai
Responding to green groups’ efforts to save about 200 trees from being axed by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) at Pawane in Navi Mumbai, Airoli MLA Ganesh Naik has asked the state agency not to cut a single tree, a report said in this paper.
The MIDC had earlier planned to allot plots for project-affected people (PAP) in the green patch developed by a private petrochemical company, which had leased out the plot, OS-7.