Juhu residents have been noticing a disturbing sight in their backyards for the last few days – truckloads of silt and debris are being dumped on Airport
Authority of India land.
Since Thursday morning alone, seven truckloads of debris have been unceremoniously dumped in the “green zone” on Juhu airport land.
According to activists, this amounts to not just environment violations but also gross breach of security as the land belongs to AAI and houses the Pawan Hans airport base. When contacted, the officials were not even aware of trucks entering the high-security zone.
Juhu resident and writer Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi told Mirror, “It is marked as a green zone in the Development Plan. The garbage doesn’t look like it’s from a regular construction site. It has come from the gutter. Imagine the health hazard that come out of that.”
Shanghvi stressed that trucks are going through AAI property, which also amounts to breach of security. “How do they have permission for dumping? Anything you do on this land requires environmental clearance from the Centre. It is airport land, where ministers regularly land. Tomorrow, anyone can walk in and breach security.”
20/07/19 Linah Baliga/Mumbai Mirror
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Since Thursday morning alone, seven truckloads of debris have been unceremoniously dumped in the “green zone” on Juhu airport land.
According to activists, this amounts to not just environment violations but also gross breach of security as the land belongs to AAI and houses the Pawan Hans airport base. When contacted, the officials were not even aware of trucks entering the high-security zone.
Juhu resident and writer Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi told Mirror, “It is marked as a green zone in the Development Plan. The garbage doesn’t look like it’s from a regular construction site. It has come from the gutter. Imagine the health hazard that come out of that.”
Shanghvi stressed that trucks are going through AAI property, which also amounts to breach of security. “How do they have permission for dumping? Anything you do on this land requires environmental clearance from the Centre. It is airport land, where ministers regularly land. Tomorrow, anyone can walk in and breach security.”
20/07/19 Linah Baliga/Mumbai Mirror
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