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On Monday, the state government received nearly 1,000 such suggestions and objections on the proposed Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd corridor.
The public hearing was conducted by the Urban Development Department, which was chaired by T C Benjamin, Principal Secretary, UDD, with an aim to address suggestions and objections of people affected by the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd corridor.
“On Day-1 of the hearing, nearly 1,000 people came for the hearing to put forth their issues,” said Dilip Kawathkar, spokesperson, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. These oppositions mainly came from the large number of slum dwellers at Charkop, where the MMRDA has proposed to build a car shed on 40 hectares of government land. Earlier in November, the nodal agency for the project had received over 8,000 suggestion and objections.
Ratiullah Khan, a resident of Ganesh Nagar in Charkop said, “We’re living there for 35 years, have developed our businesses around the area, with our kids studying in schools there. The officials should rethink and change the site of car shed.”
Other objections came from Medha Patkar and former railways minister Ram Naik. Patkar said the hearing has been called by those who are also members of the Metro Rail Corporation and thus it is unfair. An autonomous body should be set up where there is no conflict of interest, she suggested.
Naik demanded that the metro should be built on broad guage as the suburban railway. He also demanded that the fares of the proposed metro should be at par with the fares of suburban railways for affordability of the working class.
According to T C Benjamin, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is studying the possibility of reducing the size of the car shed.
“The issues discussed were regarding alignment of the metro and mainly Charkop depot. The MMRDA is examining if the depot size can be reduced to minimise the displacement of the locals,” Benjamin told Newsline.
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The government should only rehabilitate legal owners of land. People who have been occupying government land for free (even if it is for 30 years) have no right to claim free land. This should be viewed as a case of people who were living on land unused by the owner ( in this case the government) and should be asked to vacate when the owner needs it. Having a ration card does not entitle anyone to demand free land. Hopefully the legal residents of the city will decide never to vote for such politicians who make promises to illegel slum dwellers at the cost of public money and public land. or-a-single-metro-corridor/457708/The government should only rehabilitate legal owners of land. People who have been occupying government land for free (even if it is for 30 years) have no right to claim free land. This should be view