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Metro car shed at Kanjurmarg: Maharashtra govt issues notification to reserve 43.76-hectare land Photo: BL Soni The Maharashtra government on Wednesday issued a notification to reserve 43.76-hectare land at Kanjurmarg for metro car depot, car shed and other allied uses under Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act. In the notification, the government said that the land reserved for Garden/Park, Affordable Housing, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Homeless Shelter, Police Station, Police Staff Quarters, Municipal School, Electricity Transmission and Distribution facility, and wide Development Plan Roads of Village Kanjur having area admeasuring approximately 43.76 hectares are deleted and the land so deleted is entirely reserved for Metro Car Depot, Casting yard and other Metro uses . ....
Developer has submitted a plan for an affordable housing project here MUMBAI: The Garodia family, which claimed ownership of the Kanjurmarg plot where the state proposed the metro car shed, has already been paid Rs 471 crore by Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Ltd as part of a development agreement. Documents accessed by TOI show the deal for the 500-acre sprawl in Kanjurmarg and Bhandup which the Garodias say they control is worth Rs 521 crore. The salt commissionerate, that comes under the central government, has, however, challenged the family’s claim. The Kanjurmarg property, which the state hoped to use for a metro car shed, is not only leased land in the possession of a private individual, there are development rights over it held by a prominent business group. Of the 500 acres here, the state has staked claim to 102 for the metro lines 3 and 6. But the Bombay high court has rejected the bid and described the collector s attempt to pass it off as state governmen ....