Mumbai’s ecologically important salt pans may soon be opened up for real estate

Mumbai’s ecologically important salt pans may soon be opened up for real estate

In the run-up to the Maharashtra legislative assembly elections on Oct. 21, 2019, the state’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, has announced several projects to woo voters. In Mumbai, which is perennially land-starved, the salt pans are few of the remaining land parcels on which no development has happened so far.