Of the 51 villages the 78-km Vasai-Talasari stretch of the Vadodara Mumbai Expressway (Phase-II) stands to affect, 30 villages consist of forests. The proposed right of way (ROW) in forests has 27,269 trees and in non-forest land it has at least 61,080 trees, bringing the total to 88,349.

The information was submitted by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to the Experts Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) last month.