In a bid to avoid wrath of green activists by felling trees, MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) has decided to undertake a tree mapping exercise along the 18 km stretch between Dahisar and DN Nagar, before initiating Metro line constructions. The project is expected to get over within the next four months.

An MMRDA official said, “We don’t want any sort of problems to come up when we begin the construction — especially from green activists and locals. We will be appointing an agency soon to conduct a detailed survey of the number of trees that might get affected because of the Dahisar-DN Nagar Metro construction.”