The greenery lining the Eastern Express Highway (EEH) is threatened. Building contractors and advertising agencies are clandestinely cutting off or poisoning trees along the highway for better views of their hoardings. A front-page report stated in this paper that over 55 trees have been discreetly killed, and no one has been arrested as yet.

Locals have said that many trees are being cut for a better view of advertisement banners. From illegal hacking to injecting poisonous chemicals into trees, the modus operandi may differ, the aim is the same: get rid of trees for visibility reasons, so that your structures/banners/ads are better viewed.