It ordered the municipal authorities to utilise World Bank funds for tagging trees standing on public land while directing recovery of RFIT cost for trees on private land from owners. "The purpose is not to gain monetary benefits out of timber from trees but to raise construction over the land cleared of trees," the bench said, citing the spiralling cost of land within Shimla municipal limits. It also noted that repeated directions to protect trees have fallen on deaf ears. Apart from RFIT for trees, the bench ordered the state chief secretary to implement the court's order for numbering all trees on government and private land, tag them with RFIT and map forest cover as well as growth of concrete structures in the town by "using dronesatellite and associating department of environment, science and technology". It results in landslides, change of temperature climate and otherwise adversely affects the ecology and growth of biodiversity ."

Source: Times of India October 28, 2017 23:26 UTC