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74 crores still to be paid by BMC to the Forest Department for Marine Conservation

  • by Webdesk
  • 31 Oct 2021
Coastal Road: 74 crores still to be paid by BMC to the Forest Department for Marine Conservation
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections 2022 are just around the corner but the civic body in the city of Mumbai has still not deposited a total of 74 crores to the forest department for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity because of which is not able to fully compile with the terms of coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance. 
 
In the year 2017, it was laid down by the Union Environment Ministry’s Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) expert appraisal committee, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was supposed to pay the Mangrove Foundation of Maharashtra 2 percent of the project cost to offset the Coastal Road’s environmental impact. 
 
When the media tried to contact the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials neither the coastal road department nor the executive engineer responded on this matter on Sunday. But this information was later confirmed by the forest department’s mangrove cell that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not yet paid the whole amount. 
 
“The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was informed to deposit a total amount of 254 crores to us, which is just the 2 percent of the whole 12,700 crore project and that too I’m estimating from newspaper sources, I am not aware of the total cost of it as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has never told this to us,” stated Additional Principal Chief Conservator of forests (APCCF) mangrove cell Virendra Tiwari. 
 
As of now, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has deposited a total of 150 crores despite knowing that it is mandatory to pay the entire amount while the construction is going on or before that. 
 

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