Aaditya Thackeray Leads Protest Towards Metro Automobile Shed

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Former Maharashtra tourism and atmosphere minister on Sunday slammed the state authorities’s resolution to assemble a Metro automobile shed in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony and mentioned the 808 acres of land was reserved as forest and “human greed and lack of compassion can't be allowed to destroy biodiversity” throughout a protest within the metropolis.

The Shiv Sena chief, who participated in a protest towards the state authorities’s transfer to shift the proposed Metro-3 automobile shed to the Aarey Forest in a tweet mentioned, “Aarey is a novel forest inside our metropolis,” and the earlier Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities led by his father Uddhav Thackeray had declared the 808 acres of Aarey as Forest and the “automobile shed should transfer out.”

“Aarey is a novel forest inside our metropolis. Uddhav Thackeray ji declared 808 acres of Aarey as Forest and the automobile shed should transfer out. Our human greed and lack of compassion can't be allowed to destroy biodiversity in our metropolis,” he mentioned.

Aarey is a novel forest inside our metropolis. Uddhav Thackeray ji declared 808 acres of Aarey as Forest and the automobile shed should transfer out. Our human greed and lack of compassion can't be allowed to destroy biodiversity in our metropolis. pic.twitter.com/YNbS0ryd8d

— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) July 10, 2022

“I enchantment to the brand new state authorities (led by CM Eknath Shinde) to not take out the anger towards us on Mumbai,” he additional instructed reporters. He mentioned the earlier authorities was “pro-Mumbai, pro-Maharashtra and a votary of sustainable improvement”.

Within the Aarey forest, usually termed as town’s inexperienced lung’, situated in Goregaon western suburb, some 300 totally different sorts of wildlife are discovered, together with a lot of leopards.

Inexperienced activists have been vehemently opposing the chopping of timber in Aarey for the automobile shed. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis lately directed state Advocate Common and the administration to submit a proposal on constructing the automobile shed in Aarey Colony, as a substitute of Kanjurmarg, the jap suburb which was chosen by the earlier Uddhav Thackeray-led authorities.

On Sunday, Aaditya Thackeray throughout a protest by environmentalists towards the Metro automobile shed in Aarey, defined the earlier authorities’s resolution to shift the venture to Kanjurmarg. “We needed to protect the wildlife and biodiversity. We recognised the adivasi (tribal) hamlets and on the similar time, labored on the concretisation of roads in Aarey with out touching a single tree.” He mentioned earlier than the MVA authorities was toppled after Sena MLA Eknath Shinde and many of the celebration legislators rebelled towards the celebration, it was searching for choices aside from Kanjurmarg.

“The Kanjurmarg automobile shed would have catered to the Metro strains 3, 6, 4 and 14. We'd have saved Rs 8,000 crore to Rs 10,000 crore,” the previous minister mentioned. A automobile shed will not be for every day use, however for upkeep each 4 to 5 months, he mentioned. The MVA authorities was searching for a stabilising line for Metro 3 on the Bandra-Kurla Complicated (BKC) and Nariman Level (in south Mumbai), he added.

(With inputs from PTI)

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