Read the following passage and punctuate where necessary: Mr and mrs anita sharma with their two children mohit and meera live in Canada they spent a month in 2019 touring india so that the children could see their beautiful country. they visited tajmahal redfort golden temple Jaipur The kids were mesmerized by the beauty of taj mahal and they said its incredible When they returned to Canada they shared their experiences with their classmates.class teacher mrs rita asked mohit what he most liked about taj mahal mohit replied that he liked the craftsmanship done on marble.
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Mr. and Mrs. Anita Sharma with their two children Mohit and Meera live in Canada. They spent a month in 2019 touring India so that the children could see their beautiful country. They visited Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Golden Temple, Jaipur. The kids were mesmerized by the beauty of Taj Mahal and they said its incredible. When they returned to Canada they shared their experiences with their classmates. Class teacher Mrs. Rita asked Mohit what he most liked about Taj Mahal. Mohit replied that he liked the craftsmanship done on marble.
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2,000 trees face axe for elevated road project
The public works department has sought felling of around 2,000 trees for a Meera Bagh-Vikas Puri and Mangol Puri-Madhuban Chowk elevated road project on the outer ring road in west Delhi, but the trees identified for felling are not in the project alignment.
The trees are on the service lanes, while the elevated road has to come up on the central verge.
In reply to a query under the right to information act, the PWD has admitted these trees need to be felled for “widening” of the main carriageway and “development” of service roads and footpaths.
Tree activist Prabhakar Rao, who is also a member of Delhi government’s Tree Authority, said, “In the name of landscaping, we get shrubs and articles of ornamental value which can never make up for green losses. Instead of cutting trees and planting saplings elsewhere, the government must accommodate as many as existing trees as possible in its beautification drive.”
Terming it unnecessary felling, tree activists have now written to the chief minister, the secretary (environment), besides various other agencies, including the National Green Tribunal, that these trees be accommodated in landscaping planned below the proposed elevated road.
“The project map shows that there has to be a green belt of 2,64,000 sqm along the project. During the approval stage, it was not considered that a large number of heritage trees already exist, thus, the existing trees instead of being felled can very well be accommodated in the proposed green belt,” said a tree activist, who has approached government authorities seeking their intervention.
Forest department officials admitted they were never consulted at the planning stage.
“Trees are located along the service lanes and not on the central verge, where the pillars for the proposed elevated road are to be erected. The trees are no obstruction as they are 220 feet away from the central verge and do not fall in the alignment of the project,” said another activist. “There is no reason for felling about 2,000 fully-grown trees. More space can be created if cars are not parked illegally on service lanes,” he said.
-The Hindustan Times, 1st June 2013
Counting our losses
Collecting stamps was a hobby that many of us took up in our school days; it turned us into letter writers. We corresponded regularly with relatives and pen friends spread across the world, not because we had anything of great significance to share but because replies came in envelopes and aside from letters, the envelopes also bore stamps. The habit of collecting stamps also turned us into insufferable little pests because we were either badgering people to give us stamps or rummaging through other people’s papers, looking inside trash cans or overturning rubbish heaps in the hope of finding discarded postage stamps.
From postage stamps I graduated to collecting First Day Covers. One had to be at the Gole Market, Kashmiri Gate or Patel Chowk Post Office early in the morning, in order to be among the first to own the new stamp and its special cover. One had to be early because First Day Covers were printed in limited quantities and were sold only for one day.
We exchanged First Day Covers and therefore bought more than one. We also bought old postage stamps from stamp dealers who thronged the post offices on the days when a new stamp was released. We eventually became experts in names of countries, their currencies and much else besides.
We forget these simple things at great cost to the environment of the city, go around the India Gate lawns or on the roads that had Jamuns planted along the footpaths and you will see places where yawning gaps have begun to appear. Trees have begun to break or die and those planted as replacements have not even reached tree adolescence. The 90 to hundred year old Jamun trees will disappear in the next decade or so and the second line is nowhere in sight.
We no longer write letters, children do not collect stamps, the trees are disappearing and we don’t even miss their shade and all this is happening in a space that we want to be declared a world heritage city.