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Mumbai: Hear, hear and some cheers
Updated On: 28 February, 2024 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
Activists, locals all smiles at interim Hanging Garden reservoir report; minor repairs should not entail cutting down trees, shutting down garden
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(From Left) Zoru Bhathena, Vidula W, Dr N Baxi and Ravi Mandrekar at the conference. Pic/Shadab Khan
The wait continues for the report from the IIT members of the eight-person expert committee, with reference to the stability of the Malabar Hill reservoir. The subject has been simmering since September last year after the BMC said it planned to demolish and reconstruct the over 140-year-old reservoir in the area. The reconstruction proposal has faced stoic resistance from a number of activists and citizens, especially since the proposal entailed axing 389 trees. Out of the 389, 200 are to be transplanted.
Citizens have organised themselves into a number of core groups and committees, in opposition to the BMC proposal. Activists, locals and environmentalists under the Malabar Hill Environmental Protection Group, held a press conference at the press club at Azad Maidan on Tuesday afternoon, even as the final report on the structural stability of the reservoir is awaited. The eight-person committee has four IIT experts, three citizen’s representatives and a convenor. The citizen’s representatives have filed an interim report largely in favour of minor repairs and no demolition of the reservoir. The IIT report is awaited.
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