Updated On: 19 March, 2025 04:48 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
The applicant's counsel claimed the attempt was to motorise the hill town of Matheran. While claiming the exercise was necessary to stop soil erosion, the state's counsel said the decision to lay clay paver blocks in place of concrete paver blocks was being mulled over

On January 10 last year, the apex court said e-rickshaws would be provided only to those pulling hand-rickshaws in order to compensate them for their loss of employment. File pic
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to submit a report on whether it was necessary to lay paver blocks on roads in Matheran — a hill station located 83 kilometres away from Mumbai — to avoid soil erosion, news agency PTI reported.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih passed the order while hearing an application over the laying of paver blocks on the mud roads of Matheran, PTI reported.