This could be called a massive win for the people’s movement who protested government’s move to acquire additional land for building a metro shed. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) had earlier sought more land from the Aarey Colony to build another casting yard for the upcoming metro projects, but they have now bowed down to public pressure and protests.
The MMRDA has now sought an alternate land parcel at Wadala in the southeastern periphery of the megapolis.
However, the earlier proposal to cut down 2,700 is still on. The government has only dropped the plan to acquire additional land for building the metro shed.
There have protests on a daily basis since the news of MMRDA acquiring more land broke. Activists and environmentalists have been protesting daily against the state’s proposal to fell around 2,700 more trees in the city’s green lung Aarey Colony, which is home to thousands of tribals and hundreds of wildlife species, apart from the unique flora and fauna, to build a casting yard for the 14.47-km Lokhandwala-Kanjurmarg corridor-6.
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