Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday criticised the reported felling of nearly 1,100 trees for a pumped-storage hydropower project in Maharashtra's Western Ghats, describing it as another instance of "ecological devastation" affecting people across the country.

Ramesh, the Congress general secretary in-charge of communications and a former environment minister, shared a media report on X that claimed nearly 1,100 trees had already been felled, while more than 32,000 trees had been marked for removal for the project.