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Wildlife Forest Department Clears Train Through City's National Park

Wildlife Forest Department Clears Train Through City's National Park

by The Daily Eye Team March 3 2016, 3:00 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secs

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is set to lose 58 hectares of forest land, including 10 hectares of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, to Prime Minister NarendraModi's pet Delhi-Mumbai Freight Corridor project. In a final order issued on February 29, the State Forest Department dereserved this large chunk of forest land spread across the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (10.55 hectares), the Thane forest division (16.17 hectares), and the Dahanu forest division (31.11 hectares).

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