The butchering of trees in Aarey Milk Colony is not yet complete. While the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) claimed that it has transplanted many trees removed for the Metro line III alignment and is taking care of them, a nature lover who went to check on them, says 35-40 of them have either died or are on the verge of dying. The statement which was highlighted in a report in this paper is indicative of the general skepticism, cynicism and outright disbelief associated with transplanting trees, all across the Metro.

In the tug of war between infrastructure and development, those pushing the latter often talk about balancing the trees cut to make way for infrastructure, with transplantation of trees. They say a large number of trees have been transplanted and that number offsets the destruction of green.