Inching ahead: State clears plan to continue building SGNP wall

The state has approved a proposal of the Forest Department to continue building the boundary wall around the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP)—a project that has seen only 2.37 km being constructed in the last seven years.

- Sabah Virani

MUMBAI: The work is pegged at ₹194 crore.

The wall was ordered to be built by the Bombay High Court in 1997, as a measure to prevent encroachments in Mumbai's green lung. From November 2017 to date, only 2.37 km of the wall was built, according to data shared with HT by the chief conservator and director of SGNP, Anita Patil, and court documents.

Subtracting portions of private walls and where the terrain acts as a natural boundary, this leaves 76.423 km—49.4% of the total—where a wall remains to be built.