The Mariner's View on the Trees
Felling at Aarye Mumbai
There is much political and social storm with pro-and-anti Trees felling stands taken by citizens privately and publicly, individually & collectively in Mumbai's suburb. Some of the young demonstrators have compromised their CVs too by being charged with rioting for participating in the demonstrations.
It's about the land being cleared for a Metro Train Depot that stands on a wooded area and is adored by many city dwellers.
Understandably the issue went to the court and the court verdict came in favour of the development - meaning trees felling on the designated area for the Metro Train Depot.
Being a professionally trained incident investigator and being seriously committed to the environmentally protecting the seas and oceans for over 4 decades (contrary to the popular belief that ships deliberately pollute the seas) as a seagoing professional I have a simple view as below: -
Who in the first place allocated this land to the Metro Depot project, knowing very well that it was a thickly wooded extension of the National Park?
Screaming against anyone else from the architects to the woodcutters or the courts to the administrations or the demonstrators to the police force is of little use. Isn't the root cause in the first place is the person/s who even dared to come up with the idea of cutting and levelling a centuries-old wooded area - technically the rest of the people are 'just doing their jobs' and Yes! shouldn't the demonstrators while acknowledging their love and emotions, should also know by now that the environmental watchdogs must be non-political, unbiased and should be working from the conception of such projects that endanger the ecology in itself?
Below are the shared Links for the History of Mumbai Metro Planning & current news, - (courtesy news18 media, Wikipedia & 'Google')
- Capt.
U.S. Gogate
06Oct2019
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