With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) taking up major concretisation work of all roads in Mumbai, the civic body’s Garden Cell has listed out directives to ensure the city’s tree cover remains unaffected.
In a proposal sent to municipal commissioner and state-appointed administrator, Iqbal Singh Chahal, the Garden Cell has sought formal implementation of these directives to ensure no tree is affected while carrying out digging and concretising work.
“The roads department has taken up concretising and asphalting of large number of roads in Mumbai city and suburbs. However, while carrying out digging works without taking any kind of care,