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New Delhi: Delhi lost over 290 trees, some of them decades old, during Monday's fierce thunderstorm, prompting the civic agencies to launch special drives to remove debris from city roads, even as Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena asked for a thorough review of the causes of uprooting of trees to ensure such incidents do not recur. According to data provided by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, at least 215 trees were either uprooted or damaged across the city, excluding the Lutyens' Delhi area where 77 trees had fallen due to the thunderstorm on Monday evening. The Delhi traffic police on Tuesday said it received 352 calls related to traffic congestion and 14 calls about building or wall collapse following rains and thunderstorm in the capital a day before. At least three persons have died in rain related incidents, including one who drowned in waterlogged Pul Prahladpur underpass. Civic authorities said that fallen trees belonged to different varieties, including neem, peepal, jamun, arjun, seemal, pilkhan, bargad, imli, kadelia, kusum, kekan, balam, bheda and eucalyptus. Civic agencies, including the MCD and the New Delhi Municipal Council, struggled to clear streets dotted with fallen trees and their branches obstructing the traffic. A senior official from horticulture department of the MCD said 750 civic personnel were deployed to remove uprooted trees from roads in different parts of the city. "Nearly 30 vehicles, with each having 25 workers, have been pressed into service to remove debris from roads. Several road stretches have already been cleared and debris will be removed from the remaining stretches by the evening," the official said. [https://im.rediff.com/news/2022/may/31tree.jpg?w=670&h=900] The areas und ...