The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has got a final go-ahead for its Malad Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) by agreeing to give 35 hectares of land for transplantation of mangroves owing to the 35 hectares that will be affected in the construction of the plant.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) had earlier put down a condition asking for five times the area that will be affected for this plantation. But a Central Government notification mandated three times the plantation of mangroves that will be affected, said civic officials. It did not mention the size of the land, but the number of mangroves affected and ensuring three times the affected number are planted elsewhere.