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On December 16, the Bombay High Court stayed an order passed by the Mumbai Suburban District Collector to allot a 102 sq km plot of salt pan land in Kanjurmarg for construction of the integrated metro car shed. The court also ordered that no construction work take place on the land.   

It is noteworthy, that the car shed for Metro line 3 was previously planned inside the Aarey forest, but authorities were forced to reconsider their decision in wake of large-scale public protests that followed the surreptitious cutting of trees at mid-night. The car shed was then shifted to the plot in Kanjurmarg as per an order passed by the Collector on October 1, 2020. In fact, the Maharashtra government decided to construct an integrated car shed for Metro lines 3, 4, 4A and 6 at the site.

However, there is now a dispute over ownership of the new plot in Kanjurmarg between the Central and State government. This dispute is compounded by the tussle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its former ally, the Shiv Sena, that is now part of a coalition government with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra.

The central government moved court against the transfer of the Kanjurmarg plot to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for construction of the metro car shed.

 

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]]> Metro car shed to shift from Aarey forest to Kanjurmarg https://sabrangindia.in/metro-car-shed-shift-aarey-forest-kanjurmarg/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:50:54 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2020/10/12/metro-car-shed-shift-aarey-forest-kanjurmarg/ Forest dwellers and activists rejoice as Maharashtra government decides against plundering the Aarey forest any more, cases against forest rights activists also dropped

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Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has scrapped the construction of a metro car shed at Aarey forest and shifted the project to Kanjurmarg, a month after declaring over 800 acres of Aarey Milk Colony a reserved forest. Thackeray said that development had to be reconsidered with a focus on ecology, climate change, and rise in temperature. “We need to take a relook at the development we want,” he said.

“Biodiversity in Aarey needs to be conserved and protected. Nowhere in the world there is an 800-acre jungle in the heart of a city,” the Chief Minister said.

His son, Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray, expressed a similar sentiment in his tweet.

 

CM Thackeray further said that the government approved the merger of two metros, the underground Metro 3 for Colaba-Bandra-Seepz and the overground Metro 6 for Vikhroli-Lokhandwala, with a common car shed on 41 hectares in Kanjurmarg. Further, he assured that the near Rs. 100 crore spent on construction and the building standing at the site will be put to good use so that money is not wasted.

Moreover, he said government land in Kanjurmarg would be given free of cost. Meanwhile, construction of an electric substation and a tunnel that connects Metro 3 and Metro 6 would be done at Aarey.

Additionally, the Cabinet decided to take back the cases registered against protesters who had denounced the Aarey project and the felling of trees.

The Kanjurmarg announcement surprised the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) who had been asked to undertake a feasibility study for the Goregaon Pahadi site one of the two alternative sites shortlisted by the state government.

“This was exactly what was suggested in 2015 but rather than implementing it at that time, the government circulated false stories of the land parcel at Kanjurmarg being under litigation. This 41-hectares land is free of any encroachment or litigation and is in government’s possession,” Zoru Bhathena, an environmental activist told the Times of India.

The Kanjurmarg land along the Eastern Express Highway, is currently used for cultivation. On October 11, officials began soil testing and barricading of the area. Although the land comes under CRZ, the area has no mangroves, activists said. Moreover, they said there was a plan to merge Metro 3 and 6 in October 2015 as well.

Bhathena thanked the government and called the decision a “miracle.”

“We were never against the metro line or anti-development but were fighting to save a green lung,” he said.

The news has brought much joy to the forest-dwellers and rights activists like Teesta Setalvad who have been fighting for the preservation of Mumbai’s lungs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, former CM Devendra Fadnavis, who had favoured the Aarey site and whose government had subjected pro-environment protesters to police action, tweeted that the decision was taken just to satisfy someone’s ego and would lead to a cost escalation of Rs 4,000 crore.

 

He pointed out that Kanjurmarg’s marshy land would delay the project indefinitely and said the Rs 400 crore already spent on the Aarey car shed would go down the drain.

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