Overview

• The civic body issued a notice on Saturday earmarking the Eksar, Borivali plot and inviting suggestions and objections for 15 days.
• The land, owned by M/S Dynamix Clubs and Resorts Pvt Ltd, has been offered on a leave-and-license basis free of cost or at a token rent, with BMC to take possession if unchallenged.
• About 15 acres from the 84-acre parcel will be selected for cultivation and handed to the Mangrove Cell for roughly five years to raise saplings.
• BMC plans replanting at a 1:3 ratio and has committed to 137,025 mangrove saplings as part of its environmental plan, with higher initial planting to account for survival rates.
• Officials say around 9,000 mangroves will be cut and about 50,000 fall in the influence zone of the Versova–Bhayandar corridor, a project spanning roughly 25 km and affecting about 165 hectares.