Why Is Aarey So Vital For Mumbai? A Look At The Battles To Claim It
By Nikhil Ghanekar Within a day of being sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister earlier this month, Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis announced their plan to move the metro car depot of Mumbai Metro Line 3 back to Aarey colony from Kanjurmarg. This overturned the Uddhav Thackeray-led government's decision to build the metro depot on a plot in Kanjurmarg, a suburb in north east Mumbai, rekindling the protests over the environmental impact of the move. The new government officially lifted the stay on the work at Aarey on Thursday, thus paving the way for work to resume at Aarey. Sin...