Residents of Nehru Nagar in Kurla East started a citizen termed ‘Lok Chalwal’ to reserve the old Kurla government milk dairy land for a garden and recreation ground to maintain greenery. This paper reported how on Thursday they received support from Varsha Gaikwad, sitting Dharavi MLA and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate for Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai North Central.

The 10.4-hectare piece of land earlier used by the government milk dairy at Nehru Nagar, Kurla, has been lying unused after the dairy shut down nearly a decade ago. Residents are upset about plans they have heard about commercially exploiting the land. It is a verdant patch, with approximately 900 precious trees.