He knew the Centre had staked a claim on the Kanjurmarg land and that there could be a legal battle ahead, but Thackeray trusted the opinion of his official team and gave the goahead, no mat er that it led to a sledging match and allegations by the opposition BJP.
The metro car depot at Aarey, part of a 1,800-acre suburban forest, was to ser vice trains on the Mumbai Metro’s longest route, the 33.5 km underground Colaba BandraSEEPZ line (Aqua Line3). The new site at Kanjurmarg will function as a service centre for three routes—Line3, Line4 (32.3 km WadalaGhatkopar ThaneKasarvadavli route) and Line6 (14.5 km LokhandwalaJogeshwari VikhroliKanjurmarg route). The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the nodal agency for construction of the metro lines, is going to integrate Line3 and Line6 through a 1.5 km elevated viaduct at SEEPZ (Santacruz Electronic Export Zone), a special economic zone.
The Union ministry of commerce and industries filed a petition in the Bombay High Court on September 22, through the deputy salt commissioner, staking its claim on the Kanjurmarg land, and seek ing a stay on the Maharashtra government’s plan to develop the disused salt pan stretch for metro works. The high court will hear the petition on December 4. A private player, Mahesh Kumar Garodia, too, claims he is a lessee of 500 acres of land there.
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