Fire In Aarey Augurs Trouble For ‘Developed’ Future

Around 6.20 pm on December 3, a fire broke out in a forested area near the Aarey Colony in Goregaon, Mumbai. Till 7.30 pm, the fire remained confined to a zone within 3.5 kms from the spot of the first but, swiftly,  by 8 pm, it was escalated to Level III as the fire department found it difficult to control the blaze owing to winds from the hills and the fire threateningly advanced to residential areas.

Mumbai's Metro Battles Activists, Fears, Divine Fury

The storm is yet to die out over the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited's (MMRC) taking over 30 hectares of the famed Aarey colony, a green belt of Mumbai, when another application has come in from MMRC demanding another 12,000 sq metres of land. The colony in Goregaon, inaugurated in 1951, was the result of the vision of Dara Khurody, a dairy pioneer of India whose name is taken in the same breath as Father of the White Revolution, Verghese Kurien and Tribhuvandas K Patel.