600 acres land in Aarey Colony to be reserved as forest, says Uddhav Thackeray

Section 4 of IFA means the government intends to declare the land as reserve forest by appointing a forest settlement officer. (Express file photo)

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday announced that a 600-acre land parcel in the Aarey Milk Colony near Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) would be reserved as a forest. The area of the reserved forest excludes the land on which the controversial car shed for the 33.5-km-long underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro Line 1 corridor is to come up.

Thackeray, who chaired a meeting on Aarey land, said that the government had decided to invoke Section 4 of the Indian Forest Act in…