SGNP ecological benefits greater than BMC budget: HC
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday said that if the ecological benefits accruing from Sanjay Gandhi National Park were to be monetised, they would surpass the budget of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the richest civic body in the country. SGNP ecological benefits greater than BMC budget: HC “No one sitting in this court can let this go,” the division bench of chief justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and justice Amit Borkar said while hearing the Conservation Action Trust’s petition alleging violation of earlier orders of the court pertaining to the phased rehabilitation of slum dwellers residing within national park limits. SGNP, the only national park located within municipal limits of an urban metropolis in India, houses approximately 86,000 tenements, mostly from tribal communities, who live in scattered hamlets. On Friday, senior advocate Janak Dwarkadas, counsel for the petitioner, claimed that many slum dwellers who were shifted out of the national park following the court’s earlier orders had now returned to the premises.
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