Mumbai: Protests erupt against new state government’s decision to move metro car shed back to Aarey
The Eknath Shinde administration overturned the previous government’s decision to relocate Mumbai Metro’s Line 3 car shed from Aarey colony.
#SaveAarey: Green activists including #tribals and Mumbaikars have gathered again to protest against Metro-3 car shed project, an 1,800-acre urban forest area which is often termed as city’s 'green lung’. @mid_day @patel_bhupen pic.twitter.com/WcdTmCHySu
— Diwakar Sharma (@DiwakarSharmaa) July 3, 2022
#WATCH | Mumbai: Protests underway in Aarey, Goregaon against metro car shed.
— ANI (@ANI) July 3, 2022
The newly formed Maharashtra government has directed the Advocate General that the metro car shed be built in Mumbai's Aarey colony itself. pic.twitter.com/XJ6Yr76atI
War cry of citizens to #SaveAarey
— Neelam Ahluwalia (@nahluwalia20) July 3, 2022
Destroying Mumbai's critical carbon sink, water recharge zone, wildlife habitat to build a metro carshed is ecocide.
Newly elected Maharashtra govt needs to get its priorities right in this time of #climatecrisis@CMOMaharashtra@Dev_Fadnavis pic.twitter.com/eD2IBws8Cx
