101 acres in Kanjurmarg reserved for metro depot

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Law University will in any case come up in Goregaon West. The state government has dereserved 323 acres (129.five hectares) of no-development zone (NDZ) land off the Goregaon Link Road for putting in place of the university and a metro/mono rail car depot, allied services and business activities.
While 100 acres might be given for putting in place the college campus, the rest 223 acres might be used for allied services for the metro and for business exploitation. The Development Plan for the city has marked 45 acres in this land for a metro car depot. The website is around 2-3 km from Lokhandwala Complex, Versova.

Dilip Kawatkar, joint commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), stated, “This land is not going to be used for any particular metro line as a metro car shed. Rather, it is going to be used for allied services, including a stabling yard.”

The land sprawl is owned by means of the Sahara team and has been positioned in the residential zone. In the NDZ, the FSI allowed is simplest 0.2.

The new zoning also allows for an 18m broad highway which is able to allow FSI for residential use to go up to 3.24.

In case of commercial development (offices, retail outlets etc), the govt has below the brand new DP 2034 allowed FSI of five.

The urban advancement division issued a notification ultimate month pointing out it had issued a draft notification in 2011 to de-reserve 323 acres of NDZ for a metro car shed. The Maharashtra Law University, Mumbai, used to be set up below the Maharashtra National Law University Act, 2014. It is the first of three nationwide regulation universities to be set up in the state. The different two are to be set up in Nagpur and Aurangabad.

The government has also reserved 101 acres in Kanjurmarg, falling below Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), for a metro car shed/depot. This is a part of the government-approved DP which states 374 acres, mostly below CRZ, might be taken for a metro car shed/depot and casting yard. These plots have been reserved for metro 2A (Dahisar East to DN Nagar) and 7 (Dahisar East to Andheri East).

Earlier, the state had thought to be the same Kanjurmarg plot for the metro 3 car shed as an alternative of Aarey Colony, but it dropped the plan. Environmentalist D Stalin alleged, “The government is enjoying with phrases. They want a car shed at Aarey as it is going to lend a hand them generate FSI/TDR value over Rs30,000 crore, which possibility is not to be had on the Kanjurmarg plot. They want to wreck Aarey’s inexperienced house.”

The state in June 2016 had issued a central authority solution meting out 60 acres in Gorai for the regulation university. But as there used to be no formal handing over of land, advocate Pradeep Havnur filed a PIL in Bombay prime court docket.


The university, stated Havnur, used to be functioning out of a temporary transit-type construction at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences campus. It had simplest two study rooms. In February this year, the department bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and Bharati Dangare summoned the foremost secretaries of the urban advancement and income division and directed them to inform court docket which land might be allocated.


The notification states, “The Maharashtra National Law University requested the state government to make to be had nearly 40 hectares of land from the Metro car shed land to the University and the Authority (MMRDA) has no objection on this regard since the final land is enough to facilitate requirement of metro car depot.” MMRDA will need to download clearance below CRZ for wearing out any advancement here.


Currently, there is a keep on granting clearance for any proposal because the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) is but to be finalised. The National Green Tribunal (foremost bench) has set July 31 because the date for the brand new CZMP plan to return into force.


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