1 July 2019




MUMBAI: The BMC has agreed to compensate the forest department for allowing it to construct an underground tunnel through Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) for the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road. The civic body will purchase more than 100 acre land adjoining Tadoba Andheri Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur and hand it over to the forest department for afforestation.

Initially, when the forest department sought compensation, the BMC had refused, claiming that they were not disturbing the surface area of SGNP. But the forest department insisted on the BMC providing land under the compensatory afforestation rule. 

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