Aarey Colony
Aarey Colony | |
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Neighbourhood | |
 Buffaloes grazing in a dairy farm at Aarey Colony | |
  Aarey Colony Location of Aarey Colony in Mumbai | |
| Coordinates: 19°9′27″N 72°52′28″E / 19.15750°N 72.87444°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| Region | Konkan |
| City | Mumbai |
| District | Mumbai Suburban |
| Locality | Goregaon (East) |
| Established | 1949 |
| Founded by | Govt. Of India |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (MCGM) |
| Area | |
• Total | 16 km2 (6 sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Marathi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 400 065[1] |
| Area code | 022 |
| Website | Aarey Dairy |
Aarey Milk Colony is within Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP).[2][3] Of which 25.6% (812 acres) are classified as mixed moist deciduous type forest.[4][5] It acts as a buffer between SGNP and the city, being one of the few green spaces (spread over 2000 acres) left in Mumbai.[6] On 3 September 2020, the Maharashtra government declared one fifth of the Aarey Colony, an area of approximately 600 acres, as a reserved forest.[7]
The Colony is a neighbourhood situated in Goregaon (East), a suburb of the city of Mumbai, India. It was established in 1949 to revolutionize the processing and marketing of dairy products in the city.
The name comes up as ‘Areyn’ in Bombay Government records of 1836, according to which Ardesar Dadaji, a Parsee businessman, had been granted the villages of Malhar, Dysar, Magatney, Tulsi, Areyn, Eksar, Kanari and part of Pahadi in lieu of land in the Fort.
- ^ "Postal Index Number (Pincode): Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai". Department of Posts, India. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Aarey Milk Colony declared eco-sensitive zone". India Today. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ^ "Indian court halts tree felling in Mumbai green space". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 7 October 2019. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ Shinde, Rajendra (3 December 2017). "Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai as Forest Territory-A Status Report". Xplore—The Xavier's Research Journal. 8 (3): 80–95.
- ^ "Aarey forest: The fight to save Mumbai's last 'green lung'". The Indian Express. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ "Mumbai's Aarey Home To Rare Species Of Flora And Fauna". boomlive.in. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ "Mumbai's Aarey Colony gets one-fifth of its area marked as reserve forest". Hindustan Times. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.