Is the transplantation of trees felled from Metro sites a scam? Environmentalists and activists feel so because 65 per cent of trees which were transplanted by Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited in various areas of Mumbai, including Aarey Milk Colony, have died. According to activists, the MMRCL is killing trees in the name of transplantation. 

Watchdog Foundation trustee Nicholas Almeida made a Right to Information query seeking the number of trees that survived from those transplanted by MMRCL. According to the RTI answer, MMRCL had re-planted 665 trees in various places in the city in 2020 but according to the survey conducted by it in November 2020, only 231 of those trees survived and 434 trees had died.