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Mumbai: Residents hug trees in bid to hold onto recreation ground
Updated On: 20 January, 2024 05:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Apoorva Agashe
Members of housing societies in Ghatkopar say they aren’t opposed to cemetery but fear losing 10,500 trees
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Residents of nearby building complexes register their protest against the BMC on the ground on Friday; (right) The recreation ground in Ghatkopar commonly known as LBS Joggers Park
At least 400 people living in three residential complexes in Ghatkopar West on Friday staged a tree-hugging protest on a recreation ground, commonly known as LBS Joggers Park. They were opposing a proposal by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to expand a burial ground and build a hospital on the plot. The civic body had planted 10,500 trees at the spot using the Miyawaki technique in 2020 and residents fear they may now face the axe.
A PIL was filed in the high court and the matter is sub judice. The citizens had approached the BMC and local politicians in the area; however, they feared that the 8,593-square-metre plot would be lost. The development plan department of the BMC published a notice in the last week of December seeking suggestions and objections to its proposal to delete “the existing amenity of recreation ground” on the plot, which bears the CTS no. 50 B. Residents of the address, Kalpataru and Presidential Towers housing complexes near the plot had objected and written a letter to the BMC on January 10.
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