Mumbai:
The Maharashtra govern ment has moved the Bombay high court seeking that a nearly two-decade-old stay on 135.7 acres of land in Kanjurmarg be lifted for the Colaba-Bandra Seepz Metro-III project. Assistant gov ernment pleader G W Mattos mentio ned the application for urgent hearing before a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anil Menon on Monday. The bench has scheduled the case for hearing on Wednesday .
The HC, in 1997, had restrained the state government from allotting the around 400-acre land in Kanjurmarg to any person following a legal dispute over it that dates back to 1953.
In an application filed by Mumbai suburban district collector Shekar Tanne, the state government has urged the HC to lift the status quo order on the land that is required to set up the Metro car shed and pre-cast yard for the Metro III project. Pointing to the fact that Met ro-III was a “public project of urgency“ the state said that even if the outcome of the litigation goes in favour of the persons claiming the land, they can be compensated at that stage. The state cl aimed that if the stay was not lifted, the entire Metro-III project would be stalled and would not just affect the city , but al so the country , as it is an crucial mass transit link connecting the island city to transportation hubs as well as the do mestic and international airports. The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-III project is proposed to be operational by 2021 at a cost of Rs 23,136 crore. The project is part funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
The project proposes to have eight cars with a capacity of 2,500 passengers on the route, carrying around 14 lakh passengers every day , and help reduce 3.73 lakh vehicles daily on the route.
The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz project will be underground with the line to the car shed being over ground. The government had initially planned to con struct the car shed at Aarey Colony but met with stiff opposition from environmentalists and local residents as the area falls in an eco-sensitive zone.
A government-appointed committee then searched for an alternative and narrowed down to the Kanjurmarg land for the car shed and for allied activities such as the pre-casting yard. However, the Kanjurmarg land was under a legal dispute since 1953. The claimants had launched a second round of litigation in 1996, and the following year the HC granted the status quo order.
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