Aarey Milk Colony
Aarey Colony
Aarey Colony | |
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Neighbourhood | |
Buffaloes grazing in a dairy farm at Aarey Colony | |
| 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 |
| Area code | 022 |
| Website | Aarey Dairy |
Aarey Milk Colony is within Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). Of which 25.6% (812 acres) are classified as mixed moist deciduous type forest. It acts as a buffer between SGNP and the city, being one of the few green spaces (spread over 2000 acres) left in Mumbai. On 3 September 2020, the Maharashtra government declared one fifth of the Aarey Colony, an area of approximately 600 acres, as a reserved forest.
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.