Footpath reclamation and Hawker Eviction

On Valentines day, after we marched into the mangroves, we walked from Zen garden to New Link Road. On the footpath, as we walked, we saw that there was a bhelpuri vendor, whom we asked to move out from there. You can see where he moved out to.

Next we got the scrap dealers to remove their stuff from the footpaths.

After that we got three hawkers on wheels to leave the New Link Road also. Three cheers for Indian citizens!

Peace March on Valentines Day 2010

Valentine Day Peace march Feb 14th 2010 from Zen Garden to the Mangroves

We the members of New Link Road Forum had a Peace March into the mangroves, to the site where we found a huge patch of mangroves destroyed last week. The police came promptly after we notified them and called the tahsildar, and they claim to have filed a FIR against the alleged tenant or owner of the mangroves.
The residents were shocked to see the brutal carnage done on precious mangroves and resolved to fight to preserve our neighbhourhood.

We are hopeful that with the alert citizens and pressure on our authorities we will win.

Saving our Mangroves

This is a chronicle of our ongoing journey to save the local environment. Please excuse our non professional blog, we are activists more at ease with action in the real world.

We stay in the North West border of Mumbai, with lush green mangroves on our north and west.

Our journey starts with a scene in Jan 2009.

We managed to arrest more than 40 labourers who were hired from Panvel to cut mangroves and build a bund to obstruct the flow of sea water into the mangroves.