India, Oct. 14 -- When the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced that it would axe 770 trees along the Eastern Express Highway (EEH), it took just a day for over 1,600 people to sign a petition to protect the trees.

As per the BMC, nearly half the trees along the road are to be cut and the other half are to be transplanted to make way for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority's (MMRDA) elevated road between Ghatkopar and Thane.

HT first reported the matter on Saturday, when the BMC posted a notice setting October 16 as the deadline for sending in suggestions and objections about the fate of the trees. On Sunday, Naheed Contractor, created a petition on change.org in protest of the tree-felling, and by late Mo...