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Mumbai:
The political conflict between Maharashtra and the Central authorities over the positioning of a Metro car-shed refuses to die down. Now the Union authorities’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has despatched out a letter to the state asking it to restrain the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) from finishing up any work on the Kanjur Marg location.
The letter, addressed to Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sanjay Kumar, says the land belongs to the Government of India and will probably be “against the interest of GOI”.
It additional states, “The improper and unilateral action of the Collector, MSD, and MMRDA has caused severe loss to the DPIIT, Government of India. I would request you to direct the Collector to withdraw the orders passed in this regard in order to protect the interests of the Government of India.”
The letter contradicts what the Maharashtra authorities and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray have been saying: That The Kanjur Marg plot belongs to the state of Maharashtra. It claims to belong to salt pan land thus escalating the disagreement between the Centre and the state.
In early October, CM Thackeray introduced that the Metro car-shed could be shifted from the contentious Aarey plot to Kanjur Marg, which belongs to state authorities, at zero price.
However, the chief of opposition and ex-CM, Devendra Fadnavis, claims this shift will lead to a price escalation and delays. He additionally claimed the Kanjur Marg land is mushy land and never match for the Metro car-shed.
NDTV despatched out a message to the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra to know what steps the state will take now and whether or not it has replied to DPIIT’s letter. But the CS has not but replied on the time of publishing.
Reacting to the developments, BJP chief Ram Kadam says, “Shifting the car-shed from Aarey to Kanjur Marg will cost over Rs 4,000 crore. Whose money it is? It is the money of common people and taxpayers of our country. It is just because of the ego that the Uddhav Thackeray government is doing all this.”
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