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Like Sushant, many petitioners and activists are dejected with the order passed by the Bombay High Court on Aarey Colony.
After almost five years of environmentalists fighting to save the lush greens of Aarey in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court on Friday, 4 October, refused to declare the colony a forest area and also declined to quash a BMC decision allowing felling of over 2,600 trees in the suburban green zone for a metro car shed.
A bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre dismissed four petitions filed by NGOs and environment activists related to Aarey Colony in Goregaon, Mumbai.
Not satisfied with the high court order, activists tell The Quint why Aarey Colony needs to be saved.
Ruhie Kumar is a climate change communicator, with 7 years of experience in climate and energy campaigns.
Ruhie says that the activists are not against the metro, but they wish for a more sustainable solution where Mumbaikars don’t end up loosing the ‘green lungs’ of their city.
Debi Goenka, an avid environmentalist, says that Aarey should have been declared as a forest in the year 1997.
Activist Sushant tells The Quint that as asked by the High Court they will approach the Supreme Court.
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