{"id":645953,"date":"2025-09-12T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645953"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:23:48","slug":"fresh-row-over-scrapping-of-national-college-metro-station-in-mumbai-amid-allegations-of-railway-land-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fresh-row-over-scrapping-of-national-college-metro-station-in-mumbai-amid-allegations-of-railway-land-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh row over scrapping of National College Metro station in Mumbai amid allegations of railway land deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The cancellation of the proposed National College Metro station on the elevated Dahisar East-Mandale Metro Line 2B corridor has sparked a fresh controversy with former Congress corporator Asif Zakaria alleging that the move was aimed at facilitating the monetisation of a prime railway plot in Bandra West.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Zakaria said Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority&#8217;s (MMRDA) decision in Aug to scrap the Metro station was &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; and &#8220;against public interest&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The cancellation of the proposed National College Metro station on the elevated Dahisar East-Mandale Metro Line 2B corridor has sparked a fresh controversy with former Congress corporator Asif Zakaria alleging that the move was aimed at facilitating the monetisation of a prime railway plot in Bandra West. In a letter to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Zakaria said Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority&#8217;s (MMRDA) decision in Aug to scrap the Metro station was &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; and &#8220;against public interest&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645953","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}