TREE TUMBLES IN BOWBAZAR
A civic worker cuts the branches of a 30ft kadam tree on BB Ganguly Street in Bowbazar that fell around 2.15pm on Thursday. "I shudder to think what could have happened had the tree fallen even half an hour ago," a traffic sergeant said. There are a couple of schools in the vicinity and school buses are lined up on the road till 2pm, not to speak of the rush hour traffic, the officer said. Police had to close the Dalhousie-bound stretch till 3.30pm, by when civic workers had cleared the area. The civic authorities blamed oak mites for the fall. "The mites had made a hole in the trunk that kept growing," Susanta Ganguly, the civic assistant horticulturist in borough V, said. Also, the concrete around its root had weakened the tree, which had been identified as dangerous during the tree census in August last year, he said.
TT Bureau
Published 24.03.17, 12:00 AM
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
