ORDER :

By our order dated 4.8.2014, we had directed the State Government to file a status report, inter alia, indicating:

(i) total number of orders which have been passed since 1996 permitting felling of trees in the TTZ with particulars of the same;

(ii) the total number of trees which are required to be planted by the State Government agencies towards compulsory afforestation effort in terms of the said orders;

(iii) total number of trees that have been planted so far pursuant to the orders and the areas/locations where such plantation work has been carried out. The status report would take care to properly identify the ares where plantation has been done so that the same can be verified by appointing a Local Commissioner for the purpose, if considered necessary.

We had also called upon the State Government to indicate the time frame within which the deficiencies, if any, in plantation work shall be made by the authorities concerned and the areas identified or reserved for such plantation work.

2. An affidavit dated 28.10.2014 was filed pursuant to the said directions in which the State Government has given the particulars of orders passed by this Court from time to time, the number