In a post on X, Raut shared a letter dated October 14, issued by Sameer Shinde, Range Forest Officer, Karjat East. The letter states that permission has been granted to remove 32,490 trees affected by the proposed Saidongar-I Karjat Off-Stream Open Loop Pumped Storage Project

The study also found that regions experiencing green-cover loss generally coincided with stronger summer warming, although regional climate forcing also influenced temperature rise