Tree Management in Powai, Mumbai.

Powai's hill slopes and older township streets carry large trees, and each new building, road or utility line touches some of them. Every felling or transplant needs the MCGM Tree Authority's permission, and slopes add a second concern: removing roots can loosen soil before the monsoon. We list and inspect every trunk on the site, identify those that hold the slope, and plan retention, transplanting and replanting so the application protects the ground as well as the tree count.

Powai grew around its lake, created in the late nineteenth century by damming a stream for the city's water, though it was later dropped from the drinking supply. IIT Bombay occupies a large campus on its shore, and from the late 1980s the planned township of Hiranandani Gardens rose beside it, with towers, offices, schools and hospitals. The forested hills of the national park rise to the north, with Vihar Lake beyond. Mugger crocodiles still live in Powai Lake. Newer towers keep filling the gaps between the township and the hutments climbing the slopes.