After opposition from locals in Rai and Murdha, Mira Bhayandar, the MMRDA’s Metro car shed project for Line 9 has faced objections from NGO Watchdog Foundation. It has raised questions on the process of acquisition of the land, which it said would destroy houses of over 500 families.
 
Watchdog Foundation’s trustees Nicholas Almeida and Advocate Godfrey Pimenta have written to CM Uddhav Thackeray, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, urban development minister Reena Shinde, Maharashtra chief secretary, Thane district collector, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and other officials, seeking to spare the locals’ land.

The controversy is surrounding the proposed car shed for Metro Line 9 connecting Mira Road to Bhayandar. The letter stated that a December 3 notification doesn’t comply with the provisions of Section 11 of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. It mandates that locals are informed of the acquisition, but neither any notices have been served nor pasted or banners erected in the area, it added.