Aarey Milk Colony
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Aarey Milk Colony आरे मिल्क कॉलोनी |
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 Aarey Milk Colony
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| Coordinates: 19°08′55″N 72°52′54″E / 19.148493°N 72.881756°ECoordinates: 19°08′55″N 72°52′54″E / 19.148493°N 72.881756°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Mumbai Suburban |
| Metro | Mumbai |
| Established | 1949 |
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| • Official | Marathi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 400065 |
| Vehicle registration | MH 01 |
The Aarey Milk Colony is a neighbourhood situated in Goregaon East, a suburb of the city of Mumbai, India. It was established in 1949 and officially inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951. Aarey Milk Colony includes 12 villages – Sai, Gundgav, Film City, Royal Palms, Dindoshi (Eksar Pahad), Aarey, Pahadi Goregaon, Vyraval, Kondivita, Maroshi (Marol), Parjapur and Paspoli. In 1977, 200 hectares of land was carved out from Aarey village to establish Film City. The colony is spread over 16 square kilometres (4,000 acres) and is located off the Western Express Highway. Among the attractions in it are Chhota Kashmir with a lake and a picnic spot.
The colony also has gardens, a nursery, lakes, an observation pavilion, picnic facilities, and milk plants. 16,000 cattle are reared on 1,287 hectares of land, and 32 cattle farms. The management of all these is outsourced to a private firm every two years. Film City is frequently used for movie shoots.
There is a road within the colony built by the Maharashtra Public Works Department that connects the Western Express Highway to Powai. The Aarey Colony administration earlier collected toll from the users of the road. In 2014, the MCGM took over the road and ended the collection of the toll. It is also the location of the proposed carshed and depot for Line 3 of the Mumbai Metro.
A plan was mooted in 2010 to extend the existing Byculla Zoo in South Mumbai by building a zoo with no enclosures on land that would be acquired from both the colony as well as the adjacent Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
The Aarey Milk Colony occupies a total area of 3166 acres of land, out of which area is available for cultivation of quality fodder and grasses is only about 400 acres. Land is also leased out to various organization and institutions of state Govt. and Central Govt. as follows:
The main objective to erect such colony:
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