Tree Management in Bhayandar West, Mira-Bhayandar.

Bhayandar West's older compounds and lanes hold mature trees (coconut, banyan, peepal, gulmohur and others) that are at risk when buildings are redeveloped or roads widened. MBMC's tree authority must approve each felling or relocation, and it follows up on the replacement planting it orders. We number and record each tree, suggest which the new layout can keep, and see the application, the moves and the new planting through.

Bhayandar West is the older side of the city, west of the railway, where the first town grew up beside the station and out along the Uttan road. Its lanes hold housing societies a generation or two old, markets, small workshops and shops, and many of those buildings are now being redeveloped. To the north lies the creek, crossed by the railway bridge to Naigaon; westward and southward, salt pans, mangroves and marshy ground stretch towards Gorai and the Uttan hills. Fishing and salt-making were once the main work here, and the low ground still floods in heavy rain at high tide.