Aarey Milk Colony will expand with Entertainment parks, Aquariums & Bollywood style studio in Goregaon
A complex rich in terms of flora and fauna admeasuring 3,162.33 acres announces to foray into Eco-Tourism Park to preserve, safeguard, conserve and promote the complex which is only servicing green covers for citizens in Mumbai.
In this proposed park/zone, 350 acres of land is reserved for nature and bio-diversity centre in which various types of flora and fauna found in the complex will be preserved, essentially creating a mini jungle that Mumbaikars would walk through and a different experience will be given to every citizen.
On this occasion the Diary Development Minister, Mr. Nitin Raut said “As the prime purpose of acquisition of this land was to develop dairy development activities in the area as well as adjoining areas, to provide pure, clean and hygienic milk to the citizens of Mumbai, We have proposed to establish a Dairy Science Institute with the help of N.D.R.I. on 25 acres of land for students to get training in various dairy activities. Visitors would be able to see how milk and other dairy products are produced hygienically”
To have the knowledge of age-old tribal traditions, customs; a model tribal settlement will be established on 25 acres of land besides Aquarium, Theme Parks, etc. Along with all these activities and programmes in Entertainment Park will happen and will be developed in approximately 100 acres of land with a roller-coaster, merry-go-round, Bollywood style studio any many other interesting things.
About Aarey Milk Colony:
‘Aarey Milk Colony’, a huge tract of land, admeasuring 3,162.33 acres, was acquired from the ten villages. The purpose of acquisition was to provide pure, clean and hygienic milk to the citizens of greater Mumbai. The private cattle owners, rearing 16,000 buffaloes are housed in 30 cattle tabelas”. In order to process the collected milk from inside and from the other Milk Cooperatives, the Central Dairy was established and inaugurated at the auspicious hands of Shri. Jawaharlalji Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, in 1952.
The complex is rich in terms of flora and fauna. It has 800 types of flowering plants, 284 types of birds, 5000 insects, 36 mammals, 50 reptiles and 150 species of Butterflies. The world’s largest moth ‘atlas moth’ was discovered here. Due to the scenic location, the complex is visited by as many as 2 million visitors annually.
The department for a considerable period had been contemplating to explore the possibilities of undertaking on its own, a development of the complex in line with that which is permissible under the laws and in the exclusive public interest. It is a herculean task for the department to keep vigil over such vast land to protect it from the encroachment. With the rapid expansion and development, the land is under considerable influence from various quarters of the society. It not only includes the encroachers but also the developers, Realtors, Government agencies and the private individuals. The department is fully aware of the importance of the land in the lives of millions residents of this great city. At the time when the city is turning towards a thick hub of concretization; the role of the complex in terms of “citizen to open spaces ratio” and the Green Cover remains unparallel. In order to further preserve the land, the department, for the long had been under deliberation on evolving all such measures as will not only ensure the development but also preserve the basic objective of preserving and promoting environment.
The prime function of the department of the dairy is to provide the clean and hygienic milk to the citizens at affordable price. Without compromising the basic objective, it has become imperative to consider with an open mind the proposal of the development of the complex.
