Summary:
The civic body is carrying out its task of trimming or cutting down dangerous trees across the city. The city has around 29 lakh trees, out of which 15.63 lakh trees are on private land and 11.25 lakh trees on government land. The civic body spends around Rs 45 crore on trimming trees across the city every year. There are around 1.85 lakh trees on the roads of the city. Pravin Pardeshi, superintendent of the Garden Department, said, “In the last three days, we have worked round the clock to trim dangerous trees and to clear roads where branches or trees had collapsed.”The civic official raised the issue about dangerous trees on private land..