Mumbai: MMRC Officials and Aarey conservationists fight on Twitter

Mumbai | Saturday | 18th February, 2017

Summary:

The fight over whether or not to construct the metro rail car depot at Aarey Milk Colony is raging not just in court rooms, but on Twitter as well, with conservationists and Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) officials getting into heated arguments. Last year too, MMRC officials and the green brigade chose the micro-blogging site over arguments in a court room. Already, the petition whether there should be car depot for Colaba-Bandra-Seepz metro rail at Aarey Milk Colony or not is being heard at NGT. There were a lot of heated exchanges on social media on the topic of constructing the metro car depot at Aarey milk colony. But how long?”One of the supporters from Aarey Conservation Group, Nitika Agarwal, responded to the officials stating “we are also hoping that all the files and papers regarding Metro Aarey surface #SaveAarey”Even the Aarey Conservation Group, the umbrella body of green brigade, also gave it back to MMRC officials, commenting “Yes ma’am that’s right..