mumbai has not just a green thumb but a kind heart too in a huge adoption drive on saturday march 31 citizens were invited to come forward to take home plants that were on the road dividers in the suburbs in order to to save them from being removed owing to the metro construction work the plan initiated by subhajit mukherjee environmentalist and tree expert saw the plants being adopted in quick time this was a success usually no one comes forward and unfortunately the plants go to the dumping ground but today it was heartening to see the response people came by as early as 8 am he informsplants adoption drive in mumbaithe route for the adoption was identified from dn nagar till juhu circle mumbaikars came by some on their own and some with maalis they picked up plants like cenna and tagor after adopting the plants they were asked to share this on social media with the hashtag iplantedmytreethe bmc garden department was also present in full support says amol it was great to see the turnout and more citizens should come forward to help this way its important to plant trees we will be helping societies in the city to do sonext adoption drivejuhu circle to sv roaddid you knowmore than 10000 saplings of fruit trees are ready to be distributed and mumbaikars are being urged to come forward to plant them in their societies