nagpur the national highways authority of india nhai has started the process to follow the high courts orders of felling trees on the mansarkhawasa stretch on national highway no 7 a division bench comprising justice bhushan gavai and justice mridula bhatkar on wednesday adjourned the hearing for three months after nhais reply nhai counsel aneesh kathane informed that they were granted permission by the forest department to cut 2135 trees on the 10km patch from mansar to chorbahuli when toi visited the stretch forest department workers were seen marking and numbering trees that need to be cut kathane appealed to the court to direct forest officials to coordinate for further clearances on roads where the flyover would be constructed nhai concessionaire oriental is going to widen the 37km stretch in ramtek area there are over 2100 trees to be felled and over 1100 trees in paoni range in all over 3000 big trees will be chopped during the last hearing the court had granted permission to nhai for widening the stretch from 679689 km points by felling the trees the court pointed out that in last oneandhalf decades there were no instances of casualty to the animals on the patch that was constructed over a century ago the judges asked the forest department to adopt practical approach for striking right balance between conservation and development