BMC wakes up after 1,468 tree deaths

Updated On: 24 September, 2009 07:43 AM IST | | Somita Pal

Civic body contemplates awarding Rs 12 crore contract to replace, water and maintain city's fast disappearing green cover

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Civic body contemplates awarding Rs 12 crore contract to replace, water and maintain city's fast disappearing green cover

The BMC has a Rs 12-crore plan to restore the 1,468 trees that Mumbai lost this year to ageing, digging, heavy rains and disease.
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The amount will be paid to parties who are awarded tree maintenance contracts that would involve not only replacing lost trees but also watering, pruning and keeping them free of diseases.

A recent survey conducted by the BMC's gardens department reveals that the number of trees that the city has lost this year so far exceeds the total number of trees chopped in 2007 and 2008.
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L Wani, garden superintendent, BMC, said that the BMC tankers used to water the trees but the job was made difficult by shortage of personnel and that of water.