What is the survival rate of saplings planted along roads?

As per information obtained under the RTI Act, out of the 2,070 saplings planted in the last two years along the roads by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), 576 are dead. While the reasons for the loss of around 25% saplings planted along the roads by NMC are not known, skeptics have questioned the figures. Absence of a tree guard, presence of a number of grazing cattle in the city, theft of bamboo sticks used to support the saplings, delay in work orders to start work for freeing the roots of trees which are choked due to cementing or tarring around the trunk have all been claimed to be the possible causes.