Eco Sensitive Zone - Question of Cities

Natural Environment
Green Zones
Urban Planning

The final straw: The plan that endangers Mumbai’s
National Park

The draft zonal master plan for the eco-sensitive zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park seeks not to protect the forest but to open parts of it for construction. In doing so, the plan ignores the web of life between…

Natural Environment
Climate Change
Green Zones

‘Crown jewel of Mumbai…cannot allow it to slip away’

Ankita Dhar Karmakar, Multimedia Journalist and Social Media in-charge in Question of Cities, has reported and written at the intersection of gender, cities, and human rights, among other themes. Her work has been featured in several digital publications, national and…

Natural Environment
Green Zones
Movements

‘Protecting SGNP is people’s movement, has always been’

Despite the onerous task of reading through the 400-page draft zonal master plan for the eco-sensitive zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, which the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation published only in English, and the limited time of 30 days to…

The final straw: The plan that endangers Mumbai’s National Park

‘Crown jewel of Mumbai…cannot allow it to slip away’

‘Protecting SGNP is people’s movement, has always been’

The final straw: The plan that endangers Mumbai’s
National Park