Aarey Land

The litigation has held up a critical infrastructure project as the Centre refused to release the land for the car shed at Aarey even as the state government has promised to pay compensation to the owner of the land when it is decided.

With the Bombay High Court on Wednesday putting on hold the allotment of salt pan land in Mumbai's Kanjurmarg area for the construction of an integrated Metro car shed, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has asked the Shiv Sena-led state government to give up its "ego" and resume the construction on the Aarey Colony land.

The political war between Maharashtra and the Central government over the site of a Metro car-shed refuses to die down. Now the Union government's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has sent out a letter to the state asking it to restrain the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) from carrying out any...

Around 800 acres of land in Mumbai's Aarey - the site of a bitter row between environmental activists battling to save nearly 3,000 trees from being cut down by then BJP-ruled government to build a car shed for the Metro - have been made a reserve forest

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to reserve 600-acre Aarey land near the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in suburban Mumbai as a forest and conserve the same.

Construction work related to the Mumbai Metro can proceed on the 33 hectares of forested land razed in Aarey Colony, a lawyer for the Maharashtra government told NDTV today, shortly after the Supreme Court stayed the felling of more trees till its next hearing on October 21

Tribal communities living inside forest land in Mumbai's Aarey, where at least a thousand trees have been razed and many more are still to be cut to make way for a car shed for the Mumbai Metro, have appealed for support in the fight to save their homes and the environment.

As a reporter, I have been covering the Aarey protests for a while now and the question has remained - whether the Metro car shed should come up at Aarey Colony, an area lush with trees and grassland, one that is technically not forest land but might well be.

Amid protests against the proposed felling of trees in Mumbai's Aarey Colony to make way for a Metro car shed, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said it is the government's land which does not fall under a forest area.

Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam today accused senior Shiv Sena leader and junior minister Housing Ravindra Waikar of "usurping" 20 acres land worth Rs 20 crore in Aarey Colony area in Mumbai.

The litigation has held up a critical infrastructure project as the Centre refused to release the land for the car shed at Aarey even as the state government has promised to pay compensation to the owner of the land when it is decided.

With the Bombay High Court on Wednesday putting on hold the allotment of salt pan land in Mumbai's Kanjurmarg area for the construction of an integrated Metro car shed, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has asked the Shiv Sena-led state government to give up its "ego" and resume the construction on the Aarey Colony land.

The political war between Maharashtra and the Central government over the site of a Metro car-shed refuses to die down. Now the Union government's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has sent out a letter to the state asking it to restrain the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) from carrying out any...

Around 800 acres of land in Mumbai's Aarey - the site of a bitter row between environmental activists battling to save nearly 3,000 trees from being cut down by then BJP-ruled government to build a car shed for the Metro - have been made a reserve forest

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to reserve 600-acre Aarey land near the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in suburban Mumbai as a forest and conserve the same.

Construction work related to the Mumbai Metro can proceed on the 33 hectares of forested land razed in Aarey Colony, a lawyer for the Maharashtra government told NDTV today, shortly after the Supreme Court stayed the felling of more trees till its next hearing on October 21

Tribal communities living inside forest land in Mumbai's Aarey, where at least a thousand trees have been razed and many more are still to be cut to make way for a car shed for the Mumbai Metro, have appealed for support in the fight to save their homes and the environment.

As a reporter, I have been covering the Aarey protests for a while now and the question has remained - whether the Metro car shed should come up at Aarey Colony, an area lush with trees and grassland, one that is technically not forest land but might well be.

Amid protests against the proposed felling of trees in Mumbai's Aarey Colony to make way for a Metro car shed, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said it is the government's land which does not fall under a forest area.

Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam today accused senior Shiv Sena leader and junior minister Housing Ravindra Waikar of "usurping" 20 acres land worth Rs 20 crore in Aarey Colony area in Mumbai.