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Aarey forest: Can development and environment co-exist? While government claims that Mumbai metro will provide Mumbaikars with '$3d(8-'2&¡@ !¡;'82!ࣅ =' ;8!29638;S +8''2 !$ࣅ =-9;9 say at what cost? India Today Web Desk, New Delhi
THE tree felling in Aarey Milk Colony has ignited an environment conversation debate in India at a time when the nation is going full steam ahead with infrastructural projects. While green activists have called the Mumbai metro's move to cut trees to make way for a car shed a heinous crime against Earth and our future, WKH JRYHUQPHQW KDV MXVWL¿ HG LW by saying that the development is meant for a greater good. "Should the government let a microscopic minority with a myopic view hinder the progress of a development project which will provide a greener alternative to WUDI¿ F FRQJHVWLRQ DQG FXUE
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greenhouse emissions?" Shaina NC, a leader of the ruling BJP asked during a debate on Aarey colony during Rajdeep Sardesai's show on India Today TV. Shaina
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two per cent of Aarey land and planting over 20,000 trees across Maharashtra in its lieu," Shaina NC said. She also claimed that the project will be sustainable as Continued on Page 4