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The BMC is turning a new leaf in the fight to safeguard city trees
- by Webdesk
- 21 Apr 2022
In a special drive, the BMC's landscape department removed cement concrete bases from 983 trees, 1,325 advertisement boards, and 94 kg of nails from the bark of 6,178 trees throughout the city. The initiative to remove nails and cables from tree bases, dubbed Vruksha Sanjivani Abhiyan (bringing life to trees), began on April 18th.
Arbor Day Foundation, an American non-profit membership organization dedicated to tree planting, recently named Mumbai one of the world's tree cities. According to city officials, concreted foundations impede growth and have been replaced with healthy soil in numerous cases. Advertising banners nailed to trees, as well as electricity and digital TV wires, have been removed from a large number of trees.
"Due to garbage and nails, the trunks of trees sometimes decay," said garden superintendent Jitendra Pardeshi. It has been observed that as a result of concretization, roots cease to grow and are unable to absorb water from the soil. As a result, the BMC embarked on this mission with the aid of citizens, students, and non-governmental organizations." Parle Vruksha Mitra, Ekta Manch, River March LCC and Angholichi Goli were among the NGOs involved.
The campaign will run until April 23, which is Earth Day around the world. After then, the BMC will reveal the overall amount of rubbish collected. On the first day of the campaign, 300 trees were cleaned of scrap and 30 kg of nails were taken from Lower Parel.
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