once they recover from their ordeal they will be planted in the vicinity of their old home on a stretch of land between the mros office and rajasekhara reddys old residence in banjara hills according to k pundarikakshudu the mchs consultant horticulturist the tree would be first pruned and the transplantation process would begin when the sap from the chopped branches stops flowing the exposed roots are treated with hormones to initiate growth of new rootlets despite the cost translocation has been planned for trees on road no 2 and 3 banjara hills the tree is not uprooted immediately but the ball of soil entrapped in its roots is swaddled in gunny material and packed with coco peat which facilitates absorption of moisture mch is planning to translocate some trees at srinagar colony too it costs rs 30005000 to transplant a tree up to five years old but why has it taken the sacrifice of hundreds of trees before the mch woke up to this option when it should have been the first translocation is a tedious and expensive procedure since hyderabad has boulder and sheet rock formations roots run below huge rocks which makes it difficult to remove said pundarikakshudu mch assistant commissioner planning and projects hyderabad the survival of a translocated tree depends on its age and whether it was uprooted without much damage to the roots this is not the first time that transplantation has been done in hyderabad three trees all of them 15fthigh 34yearold peltophorums peltophorum pterocarpum were carefully uprooted from road no 3 banjara hills last friday and taken to the jubilee hills park where they will be chemically treated the entire process of translocation takes four months but the method to be used here is different for the next two months the tree is planted in a spot with partial shade once a tree is identified for transplanting a trench is dug around it the exact number hasnt been identified yet reddy said such an exercise was carried out earlier by huda when it translocated around 22 silver oaks from behind secretariat to ntr garden the cost is higher for older trees going up to rs 20000 for those that are more than ten years old the chances of survival are low once it begins sprouting new shoots the tree is taken to its final location k dhananjaya reddy says there were several cost and practical considerations impeding the civic authority finally after putting hundreds of trees to the axe the municipal corporation hyderabad mch has decided to translocate at least some of the trees an idea that green activists had been suggesting all along there was a 95 success rate hardly a tree or two died said a huda official