Ashwini Bhide is head of the Mumbai Metro, and has had to work hard to build political consensus and prove that the project will not destroy the city’s lungs.
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Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
To the editors: Is this a paid “plug?” Because if it is, there are more legal/ ethical ways of calling it an ‘advertorial,’ etc. which more established publications use when they tailor their reporting for for their ‘clients,’ when they require funding from paid ‘articles’. If it isn’t meant to be an ‘advertorial,’ then the press -style promotional tone of the article is questionable as journalism.
It is important to be clear in this case, because the Aarey Colony metro car dept land plot you referred to in the article involves allegations of a Rs 30,000 crore real estate scam (the central issue in this story, which your reporter has oddly chosen to bypass), , involving both the Metro3 CEO Ms Bhide and Maharashtra’s current CM.
If this was not a paid plug, then the money involved, combined with the glowing praise for Ms Bhide and factual omissions don’t reflect so well on this website’s integrity and/or the journalist’s reporting. Not the best direction for a new publication trying to establish a reputation.
Very first, the headline is misleading. I thought it will say how the lady has pointers about how the project will hv positive impact on Mumbai. Also, they hv made her the hero and de-sensitised value of ecology.????
Its joke that their are no alternate location for Metro shed except for Aarey. Speez and MIDC has lot of abounded factories and car shed would have found perfect location in Industrial zone.
Mumbai Definitely needs Metro, but not at cost of Aarey. Ashwini Bhide is just trying to please her political masters, who are being funded by Bulider lobby.
The government apparently doesnt realise the ecological significance of Aarey. So very mindlessly it has given a portion of land from Aarey for the metro shed even if there were other options. The merciless cutting down of trees illegally only shows how insensitive and greedy the goverment has become. There is absolutely no dialogue between the environment activists and MMRCL. And the NGT hasnt given a go ahead for the commencement of Metro work in AAREY.
The article seems a PR tactic of the MMRC. Very clearly the article has been 95% about the government, government and government. Just about a paragraph about the activist’s perspective. Bhide talks about the Tree Authority but who talks about its illegality? NGT has not cleared the decks for MMRC, it is simply ditched the petitioners after 4 years. Try and not portray a particular party to be superior and ethical. The picture used is of Bhide and none of the chopped trees, it’s playing the perception game. Who will speak about the other plans in the pipeline to destroy Aarey?
Please understand the so called educated people of Mumbai , we are not against the Metro , but we are against the Metro Car Shed in Aarey Forest, destroying a Forest in the name of development is no where going towards progression ! Snakes , insects etc are crawling n creeping inside the houses of residents staying close to the places where the Trees have been chopped , the transplanted Trees , has anyone ever bothered to cover the news on their health n how are they ? The extra trees that have been planted , can someone please show us the progress on that ? 4 years ago if MMRC wanted to they could have easily planted quality Trees n even built houses for the Tabelawalas, but no nothing of that sort is done , the intention is very clear , they want the Metro Car Shed in Aarey only to make it more concretised n have it as a commercial area ! If really Miss Bhide wants to help and see that all is well , she should have been open to meeting us all and explaining , please check the facts always before you guys print , you all are responsible media channels where you all must showcase the fact no matter what !
Recently, citizens and activists filed nearly 40,000 suggestions and objections with the civic body’s Tree Authority regarding the felling of 2,702 trees at Aarey for the metro car depot.
Please there’s also a dark side of this whole project put some light on it.
This article while pretending to be neutral, is biased and has severely distorted the facts, portraying Ashwini Bhide as a good person when in fact she has been causing a lot of problems, including misleading people and criminal acts. This article’s reporting of the whole situation is severely manipulated.
The Print has completely missed the real issue reg Aarey.
The only reason mmrcl wants to build a Car Depot inside Aarey is to exploit the Real Estate potential of this Forest land.
The Govt of Maharashtra has notified this in black & white- i.e. lands at Aarey will be commercially developed to fund the metro project (because the Govt has no money to contribute)
The Metro3 project is not about Metro development, it is Mumbai’s largest land grab scam.
I must comment that your article has been very poorly researched.
To the editors: Is this a paid “plug?” Because if it is, there are more legal/ ethical ways of calling it an ‘advertorial,’ etc. which more established publications use when they tailor their reporting for for their ‘clients,’ when they require funding from paid ‘articles’. If it isn’t meant to be an ‘advertorial,’ then the press -style promotional tone of the article is questionable as journalism.
It is important to be clear in this case, because the Aarey Colony metro car dept land plot you referred to in the article involves allegations of a Rs 30,000 crore real estate scam (the central issue in this story, which your reporter has oddly chosen to bypass), , involving both the Metro3 CEO Ms Bhide and Maharashtra’s current CM.
If this was not a paid plug, then the money involved, combined with the glowing praise for Ms Bhide and factual omissions don’t reflect so well on this website’s integrity and/or the journalist’s reporting. Not the best direction for a new publication trying to establish a reputation.
Very first, the headline is misleading. I thought it will say how the lady has pointers about how the project will hv positive impact on Mumbai. Also, they hv made her the hero and de-sensitised value of ecology.????
Its joke that their are no alternate location for Metro shed except for Aarey. Speez and MIDC has lot of abounded factories and car shed would have found perfect location in Industrial zone.
Mumbai Definitely needs Metro, but not at cost of Aarey. Ashwini Bhide is just trying to please her political masters, who are being funded by Bulider lobby.
The government apparently doesnt realise the ecological significance of Aarey. So very mindlessly it has given a portion of land from Aarey for the metro shed even if there were other options. The merciless cutting down of trees illegally only shows how insensitive and greedy the goverment has become. There is absolutely no dialogue between the environment activists and MMRCL. And the NGT hasnt given a go ahead for the commencement of Metro work in AAREY.
The article seems a PR tactic of the MMRC. Very clearly the article has been 95% about the government, government and government. Just about a paragraph about the activist’s perspective. Bhide talks about the Tree Authority but who talks about its illegality? NGT has not cleared the decks for MMRC, it is simply ditched the petitioners after 4 years. Try and not portray a particular party to be superior and ethical. The picture used is of Bhide and none of the chopped trees, it’s playing the perception game. Who will speak about the other plans in the pipeline to destroy Aarey?
Please understand the so called educated people of Mumbai , we are not against the Metro , but we are against the Metro Car Shed in Aarey Forest, destroying a Forest in the name of development is no where going towards progression ! Snakes , insects etc are crawling n creeping inside the houses of residents staying close to the places where the Trees have been chopped , the transplanted Trees , has anyone ever bothered to cover the news on their health n how are they ? The extra trees that have been planted , can someone please show us the progress on that ? 4 years ago if MMRC wanted to they could have easily planted quality Trees n even built houses for the Tabelawalas, but no nothing of that sort is done , the intention is very clear , they want the Metro Car Shed in Aarey only to make it more concretised n have it as a commercial area ! If really Miss Bhide wants to help and see that all is well , she should have been open to meeting us all and explaining , please check the facts always before you guys print , you all are responsible media channels where you all must showcase the fact no matter what !
Recently, citizens and activists filed nearly 40,000 suggestions and objections with the civic body’s Tree Authority regarding the felling of 2,702 trees at Aarey for the metro car depot.
Please there’s also a dark side of this whole project put some light on it.
This article while pretending to be neutral, is biased and has severely distorted the facts, portraying Ashwini Bhide as a good person when in fact she has been causing a lot of problems, including misleading people and criminal acts. This article’s reporting of the whole situation is severely manipulated.
The Print has completely missed the real issue reg Aarey.
The only reason mmrcl wants to build a Car Depot inside Aarey is to exploit the Real Estate potential of this Forest land.
The Govt of Maharashtra has notified this in black & white- i.e. lands at Aarey will be commercially developed to fund the metro project (because the Govt has no money to contribute)
The Metro3 project is not about Metro development, it is Mumbai’s largest land grab scam.
I must comment that your article has been very poorly researched.