Court docket provides nod for Metro Line four in Mumbai’s mangrove buffer. (Representational)
Mumbai:
The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Wednesday granted the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Improvement Authority (MMRDA) permission to hold out development for Metro Line four in a mangrove buffer zone, holding that it was in bigger public curiosity.
A bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and R I Chagla stated the Metro mission was of “immense public significance”, and permitted the MMRDA to assemble a Metro station at Bhakti Park in Wadala, 48 piers round Sewri and a short lived method street within the space.
The courtroom additionally took under consideration the truth that the MMRDA would perform compensatory reforestation and that the company had already secured all obligatory permissions.
“We’re satisfied past any doubt that the mission of development of Metro Line four as set out hereinabove, is a mission of immense public significance from the perspective of the general public transport,” the bench stated.
The MMRDA had moved the Excessive Court docket looking for its permission for the work since in November 2018, the courtroom had held that no mangroves must be eliminated and no development ought to happen inside the 50-metre buffer zone round mangroves, with out its prior permission.
As per the courtroom’s judgement, Metro Line four is proposed to be 32.32 km lengthy, with 32 elevated stations.
The MMRDA submitted that for the work in Wadala, it should take away 357 mangroves and to compensate for a similar, it could plant four,444 mangroves at an alternate website.
The event authority additionally advised the courtroom that it had already secured permissions from coastal zone authorities, Ministry of Surroundings and different state and union authorities.
The company additionally advised the courtroom that at the moment over 12 million individuals travelled every day by the suburban rail community in Mumbai and town’s public buses.
Since Metro Line 1 and the monorail community within the metropolis have been already overburdened, the proposed Metro networks could be of a lot assist to residents.
“The mission is a public utility mission, within the public curiosity, which may also enhance and supply for higher transport facility, cut back air air pollution and supply the most secure mode of transportation to society,” the courtroom stated.
“All of the requisite permissions for the execution of the stated mission are already granted by varied statutory authorities, and the MMRDA has complied with a lot of the situations imposed by these permissions and it has undertaken to adjust to the remainder of the situations,” the bench stated, whereas granting permission to hold out the development.
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