Vikramaditya
Port Blair, Mar 04: A massive tree with heavy branches today fell on a residential house at Nayapuram village of Wimberlygunj, badly damaging one bedroom and roof canopy of the house. Luckily no one was injured in the accident.
According to villagers a government contractor was cutting tree in the area, without even trimming the heavy branches as per specified norms, and because of total negligence and lack of precaution the tree fell on the house of P Bapu, S/o Late Kunjamu.
“A third-Party was executing the work and hence margin of profit would have become a major concern for the third-party Contractor. Sadly General public paying the price of ill practices in the APWD,” said a villager of the area.
Villagers demand that the district Administration & EE, RCD should guarantee safety of the life & property of the general public before resuming the said work further.
“It won’t take long for the old & dead trees to collapse upon shops, houses or people. The matter is very sensitive. Neither APWD nor District Administration is taking the matter seriously. People living under panic,” said another villager of the area.
There is of course an urgent need to cut dead and old trees but with precaution. There are more than a dozen dead trees on the roadside at Nayapuram village alone which shake & tremble even on plying of vehicular traffic on the roads.
“It is common sense that a tree should be felled only after pruning the heavy branches first. But the Contractor has openly violated the basic tenets of felling a tree,” said a resident of the area.
Today’s accident could have killed many. Movement of people & vehicles were hindered for long because of the incident.
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