The garden department will soon look for plots from other departments of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for developing urban forests, as NGOs and other private entities have expressed interest in carrying out this initiative through corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, the lack of available space has not allowed the garden department to develop more urban forests, revealed sources. 

Around two years ago, BMC’s garden department took up the ambitious project to plant more than four lakh trees under urban forest production at 64 places. Since then they have completed the process at 45 places, and more than two-and-a-half-lakh trees have blossomed in these green spaces. These urban forests are flourishing all over Mumbai and are becoming a part of attractions for many, said a civic official.