{"id":373564,"date":"2020-09-14T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373564"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T08:05:13","slug":"coastal-road-project-bmc-applies-for-wildlife-clearance-to-translocate-of-18-coral-colonies-along-south-mumbai-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coastal-road-project-bmc-applies-for-wildlife-clearance-to-translocate-of-18-coral-colonies-along-south-mumbai-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal road project: BMC applies for wildlife clearance to translocate of 18 coral colonies along south Mumbai coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has approached the Maharashtra forest department for wildlife clearance to translocate 18 coral colonies at Worli and Haji Ali, for further reclamation for the coastal road project. <\/p>\n<p>Since March, BMC has reclaimed over 53 hectare of sea along south Mumbai, for the 9.9-km coastal road, which is to be an eight-lane highway connecting Princess Street flyover to the southern tip of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. BMC had told the Supreme Court (SC) in July that they would commence reclamation only after garnering wildlife clearance. <\/p>\n<p>According to the civic body\u2019s proposal, accessed by HT, they plan to reclaim areas with coral presence by October, after receiving clearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has approached the Maharashtra forest department for wildlife clearance to translocate 18 coral colonies at Worli and Haji Ali, for further reclamation for the coastal road project. Since March, BMC has reclaimed over 53 hectare of sea along south Mumbai, for the 9.9-km coastal road, which is to be an eight-lane highway connecting Princess Street flyover to the southern tip of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. BMC had told the Supreme Court (SC) in July that they would commence reclamation only after garnering wildlife clearance. According to the civic body\u2019s proposal, accessed by HT, they plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}