Decks cleared for Metro Line 4 in Mumbai

Decks have been cleared to start the construction work on the Metro Line-4. The Bombay high court (HC) has allowed Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to cut 357 mangroves for the construction of Metro piers at Sewri and Bhakti Park station as a part of the under-construction Metro Line-4 that connects Wadala in eastern suburbs to Kasarwadavli on Ghodbunder road in adjoining Thane district. The court took into consideration that all requisite permissions for the Metro-4 line have been granted by various statutory authorities. The bench has directed MMRDA to comply with the conditions imposed by authorities while granting permission. Those include compensatory afforestation over a hectare of degraded mangrove forest at Gorai, where the authority will have to plant 4,444 mangroves saplings and also bear nursery cost, cost of raising, and maintenance of the plantation for 10 years. Bhakti Park station on Metro Line- 4 comprises 48 piers on the alignment covering about 1,200 square metres passing through the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ)-II and mangrove forests.

MMRDA authorities are required to construct a temporary approach road for carrying out the construction work. Metro Line-4 will provide inter-connectivity with existing Eastern Express Highway; Central Railway stations; Mono Rail; Metro Line-2B (connecting DN Nagar in Andheri with Mandale); Metro Line-5 (Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan); Metro Line-6 (Swami Samarth Nagar JVLR-SEEPZ-Kanjurmarg-Vikhroli), and Metro Line-8 (Wadala-General Post Office).

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Decks cleared for Metro Line 4 in Mumbai

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