The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), under a beautification drive, has installed lights on trees by taking power from nearby electric poles. Activists claim that such connections, especially open wires hanging around poles and trees during the monsoon, can prove fatal if humans, birds, and animals too come into contact with these cables. 

The BMC had installed LED lights on 15,000 trees in the city. Earlier, environmentalists had raised concerns that the lighting could be a nuisance to birds. Now, civic activists are expressing fears that this lighting may create an emergency situation during monsoons. The joints of the wires are not properly secured, and the wires are just hanging on trees.