'Plant more trees'.Looking to the relentless heat of Ahmedabad, you couldn't agree more to that. But is it really that easy to procure, and then maintain, a tree as it's made to sound? Water scarcity and bureaucratic hurdles considering, it's not. Kartik Shastri, a city-based environmentalist recalls the arduous time he had when he decided to plant some trees outside his society, which comes under the AMC jurisdiction.As regards the AMC, the cost of tree guards is debited from the budget alloted to municipal corporators. This year, some 12,000 tree guards were bought out of the corporators' budget.