on thursday night the family had submitted a written complaint to govandi police seeking to make both the bmc and best accountable for the incident and sought compensation naths family has not claimed any compensation yet they feel the bmc is not doing anything to fix the problemafter i was following up with bmc on surveying trees but got no response kokane said the fear among residents is such that many avoid walking on treelined footpaths but how will bmc explain thursdays incident we are ready to give them compensation according to the policy during the survey our officers check the bark and leaves of trees they cant know the state of roots we have asked the family to submit the death certificate along with the claim documents said harshad kale assistant municipal commissioner and mwest ward officer avinash pol the complainant in the nath case and owner of the bungalow in whose compound the coconut tree stood said this incident was waiting to happen the friend told him no tree crashes are killing people there additional municipal commissioner vijay singhal said we are looking for a technology that will help detect the internal health of trees before starting a survey across the city citizens are upset ghodeswar lived in gautam nagar slums in chembur with her 12yearold daughter and two sons aged 15 and 17 it is not even monsoon said chembur resident rajesh valapil when chembur resident sanjay kokane recently invited a friend over home the reply shocked him mumbai a day after sharda ghodeswar 45 a mother of three died after a 45ft gulmohar tree fell on her when she was seated on a roadside bench close to a bus stop near chemburs diamond garden bmc agreed to give her family rs 1 lakh compensation her husband has been living separately said ghodeswars mother tatyabai who is now looking after the children the bmc had framed the treefall compensation policy after a st xaviers student antara telang lost her right leg after a tree branch collapsed on her in sion on august 16 2010ghodeswars was the fourth fatality caused by tree fall in the city this year and came five months after former doordarshan presenter kanchan nath was killed when a coconut tree crashed down on her also in chembur police have registered an accidental death report and are probing if there was any negligence on part of the bmc naths death civic officials had said the coconut tree was in a good condition but it fell owing to gusty monsoon winds the family has requested bmc to enhance the compensation as two of her children are still in school meanwhile after two treefall deaths in chembur since july a fear psychosis seems to have developed in the minds of most residents she was the sole breadwinner