Save Aarey

 

The 'Save Aarey Milk Colony', a group campaigning against construction of the metro rail car depot at Aarey Colony, has written to Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct an environment enquiry into the metro rail project. JICA is partly funding the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz underground metro rail project in Mumbai.

  

The common argument that is put forth is that if the city’s infrastructure has to be developed, it has to be at some cost to the ecology. After all, hasn’t this been the pattern that humans have employed for generations to reach where we have reached? It is a seemingly fair argument, perhaps even rational; but it is inherently flawed. There are many good reasons that development cannot be at the cost of the environment alone, as is often the case in Mumbai, where depleting mangroves have resulted in often disastrous waterlogging and flooding that destroy homes, kill businesses, and ruin families

A few days ago, we met the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) commissioner UPS Madan and suggested that the authority try and shift the car depot to plots of open grasslands where there are hardly any trees, instead of cutting down 2,298 trees for the Metro Line 3 car depot at Aarey Colony. - See more at: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/save-aarey-milk-colony-group-fights-mmrdas-plans-to-axe-2298-trees/15840194#sthash.FxINMb3H.dpuf

The common argument that is put forth is that if the city’s infrastructure has to be developed, it has to be at some cost to the ecology. After all, hasn’t this been the pattern that humans have employed for generations to reach where we have reached? It is a seemingly fair argument, perhaps even rational; but it is inherently flawed. There are many good reasons that development cannot be at the cost of the environment alone, as is often the case in Mumbai, where depleting mangroves have resulted in often disastrous waterlogging and flooding that destroy homes, kill businesses, and ruin families - See more at: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/why-aarey-should-be-saved/16006194#sthash.OyG4OGsG.dpuf

Aarey Colony residents are up in arms over the MMRDA's proposal to cut trees at the city's green zone to make way for a car shed depot for the Metro III project. On Monday, when the BMC's Tree Authority was meeting to discuss the MMRDA proposal, a group of residents - under the banner of Save Aarey Milk Colony- gathered at the civic headquarters to oppose the tree hacking plan. They had the support of Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray, who slammed the MMRDA for the plan in a series of tweets. 

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