BMC to begin planting Andhra trees this week
This week, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will begin its ambitious project of planting the first batch of the 7,200 trees purchased from Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh in December. Nearly 3,000 trees will soon adorn the city roads across Marine Drive, Worli Seaface, Andheri-Kurla Road and Andheri-Dahisar Road in the first phase of the BMC’s tree plantation drive.
And if the recent greening of the Mumbai airport in its Sahar and Santacruz terminals are anything to go by, the trees could see a 100 percent survival rate, provided they are being taken care of.
The Mumbai International Airport Private Ltd (MIAL) had early last year purchased nearly 1,000 trees from South India to beautify the airport. Today, the organisation states that all its trees have survived with just basic maintenance at minimal cost.
“MIAL is undertaking a comprehensive landscaping exercise at the airport. We had procured around 1,000 trees , most of them from Rajahmundry and some from Chennai in 2009. The change is already evident at both the domestic and international terminals,” Manish Kalghatgi, official spokesperson of MIAL said.
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