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Mumbai: ‘Safety of life is priority’
Updated On: 26 April, 2024 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
Tree officer talks about trimming season in Mumbai; says important to close trust deficit between civic authorities, citizens
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Jitendra believes in taking some good trunk calls. Pics/Aditi Haralkar
Jitendra Pardeshi, tree officer, BMC, speaks out as tree trimming season is on in full swing in Mumbai and Maximum City gets ready for maximum challenges in the forthcoming rainy season. Pardeshi who is also Superintendent of Gardens, said pruning trees is a necessity as citizen safety is top of the priority pyramid.
Approximately how many trees are being surveyed for strength/pruning needs?
We have approximately 30 lakh trees in Mumbai. Out of this 1,86, 248 are on our roads and we have surveyed approximately 1,40,000 trees. We found that 433 trees are dead. There are 1,13,534 roadside trees that need to be trimmed out of the 1,48,169 surveyed till now. We have at least 120 officers working in 24 wards.
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