Environment Clearance in Val, Bhiwandi.

A single logistics park in Val can top 20,000 sq m with its first two sheds, and the larger ones go far beyond it. The appraisal committee looks at the park as one project: the volume of earth cut and filled, where the stormwater goes, truck movements on the highway, water supply and sanitation for the workforce. We add up every planned phase, prepare a drainage design sized to the full roof and yard area, and present the application for the whole master plan.

Val is one of the villages near the Mumbai–Nashik highway that has been absorbed into Bhiwandi's warehousing belt. Where there were once paddy fields, grazing land and low hills, there are now logistics parks of long, high sheds with wide truck yards and rows of loading docks, many let to online retailers, consumer brands and third-party logistics firms. Most parks went up in stages over roughly the past fifteen years, and new ones are still under construction. Village houses, temples and small farm plots survive in the gaps between them, and heavy vehicles use the approach roads at every hour.