new delhi tree felling has been going on unabated around the sacred grove of mangarbani on the gurgaonfaridabad road according to locals and environment activists about 100 trees have been chopped off in the past fortnight at sahibwala johad located on the southern side of the forest activists said the affected area falls within the 322 hectare mangarbani zone proposed by the forest department and accepted by the town and country planning department in 2012 in the mangar draft development plan activists have recorded gps locations of these places and have also taken photographs of hacked trees and tyre tracks of large vehicles they have also alleged that this is organized commercial felling where the thickest trees are being selectively cut branches are left out and the logs are loaded on to tractor trolleys tempos camels and shipped out for sale all this is happening at a time when the haryana government has been asked to complete the exercise of identifying deemed forests which is still pending while the state is not doing enough on the proposal of notifying the entire gair mumkin pahar hilly common land as forest the agencies have even failed to protect the existing green cover said colonel retd sarvadaman oberoi of mission gurgaon development the cutting of trees has also raised questions if there is a design behind such action to clear forests to push real estate activities in the bani vicinity