India, March 7 -- The state has approved a proposal of the Forest Department to continue building the boundary wall around the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) - a project that has seen only 2.37km being constructed in the last seven years. The work is pegged at Rs.194 crore.

The wall was ordered to be built by the Bombay High Court in 1997, as a measure to prevent encroachments in Mumbai's green lung. Twenty eight years later, after coming under fire from the court for dragging its heels on it earlier order, the state last week approved work on the remainder of the wall.

From November 2017 to date, only 2.37km of the wall was built - inching forward from 47.09km to 49.46km of a total length of 154.6km, according to data shared with H...