The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has approached the Bombay High Court (HC) recently for the felling of 24.57 hectares (ha) of mangroves for the ongoing Virar-Dahanu Road line quadrupling work on Western Railway (WR), said an official from the corporation, the implementing authority for the project. “For cutting of mangroves, prior permission from the court is required and thus we have filed a writ petition for the same,” said the official. He said the Corporation has secured in-principle approval from the Forest department for the same.
For the quadrupling of Virar-Dahanu Road on WR, a total of 29.14 ha of private land is required, of which 22.60 ha land has been acquired.
