In a first, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) called for a meeting on Monday, to discuss increasing the tree cover of the city. Incidents of healthy trees falling has become a cause of great concern for the BMC, and the commissioner also instructed officials to procure hand held tree radar/MRI machines to check their internal condition.

The meeting was held with horticulturalists, tree experts and environmentalists, and points discussed ranged from involving citizen participation for the protection of trees, to identifying plots over one hectare for plantation, to forming guidelines for standardised tree trimming etc. The pending open space policy too was discussed in the meeting, along with a new concept, of rooftop gardens. The discussion also included creating an app to track trees, particularly new ones planted when building permission is issued.