directive the BBMP launched an app called 'BBMP Green' allowing residents to collect free saplings and plant them on their own streets. Activists criticised the program for essentially absolving the BBMP of the responsibility to maintain street trees within the city. The BBMP's tree planting activities contrast unfavourably with the Forestry Department who plants half the number of trees per year at a lower cost and a reportedly 95% survival rate. None of the BBMP's replanting schemes have compensated for the ongoing removal of existing trees within the city, both from private property and the destruction of previously planted street trees for street widening purposes. A 2010 study found the density of trees in Bangalore to be lower than many other Asian cities with an estimated 50,000 trees lost between the date of publication and 2016. See also Karnataka Kempegowda Award Municipal corporation References External links Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike BBMP trifurcation: What will it mean for citizens? Will it work? BBMP schools and colleges see record rise in admissions Municipal corporations in Karnataka 1862 establishments in Kingdom of Mysore Government of Bangalore Bangalore Urban district