The levelling of a hillock in Vikhroli has become a bone of contention between citizens and BMC. While locals claim that ongoing construction activity near the hillock should be stopped immediately as it is damaging the environment, BMC maintains that the work is being carried out in a residential zone, despite one of their corporators raising a red flag over the environmental damage.

The corporator and member of the Garden and Market committee who raised a red flag against the damage being done to the environment is Suresh Patil. In his letter to the civic administration, Patil has alleged that construction activity is being carried out on a plot that is actually marked as a No Development Zone (NDZ).