• Central Park is considered the lung of Salt Lake and so it is alarming to learn that it has lost nearly 50 percent of its green cover (“The denuding of Central Park” published on April 13).

As it is the number of vehicles plying on the township’s roads is increasing day by day and now and the greenery is reducing too. The authorities must protect Central Park at any cost.

Sourish Misra,

Sarat Abasan

• Central Park has lost much of its greenery due to the Metro Rail car-shed and other such constructions. The government should shift the car-shed to some other barren land around Salt Lake or New Town. In fact, the authorities should conduct thorough research before embarking on any project that causes deforestation.

Gopal Krishna Fouzdar,

DB Block

• Ever since I have moved to Salt Lake decades back, I begin my days with a morning walk from Labony Estate to Central Park but I am now pained by the indifference of the authorities to the green cover there.

People from all over the township gather at Central Park and inhale their daily dose of fresh air. But now government offices and workshops are coming up at the cost of greenery!

P.B. Saha, 

Labony Estate

• The government must work to make our environment green, clean and healthy. Besides greenery, Central Park needs clean toilets, a source of drinking water and first aid kit made available to visitors. Sweepers must clean the park to keep it dust-free too.

Residents also have a responsibility to keep their surroundings clean. For instance, I have noticed an empty plot in JC Block that has been turned into a dumping yard. And we need proper channels through which we can report such incidents to the authorities and keep track till the issues are resolved.

Benu Kumar Bose,

Jalvayu Vihar

• The lungs of Salt Lake are being damaged but the Metro Rail alone is not to blame for this. It was the residents who invited the Metro. However, residents’ welfare associations should have taken up the matter at the initial stages. Let us at least hope that the corporation, under a stronger administration of the current mayor, will ensure the space under the Metro viaducts are not encroached by hawkers.

Samir Das Gupta,

CF Block