Aarey protest: Can Mumbai afford growth at expense of greenery?

Mumbai today is experiencing a mass movement where green activists have come out in large numbers to save the Aarey Colony where trees are being chopped on government's order.

The Maharashtra government has argued that in the current plan for construction of the Metro rail car shed, only 30 hectares of about 1,300 hectares that make up the Aarey forest would be cleaned up. The Film City required nearly seven times more land.

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