The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sent notices to 4,622 societies and government and private entities to trim trees on their premises before the monsoon. The civic body has also surveyed 1.15 lakh major roadside trees and decided to trim 85,505 of them before the end of May.

Out of the 1.15 lakh trees, 24,000 have been trimmed to date, the civic body claimed. According to the tree census conducted in 2017, there are approximately 29.75  lakh trees in the municipal corporation area in the city. Out of these, 15.63 lakh are on the premises of private institutions, while 11.25 lakh stand around government buildings and establishments. Out of the total number of trees, 1.85 lakh are on the roadside and 1.15 lakh of these are big. Trees that are small and pose no threat are not considered in the survey.