Green Belt Development for Industries in Vasai MIDC, Vasai-Virar.

Plots in Vasai MIDC were not laid out with much open ground, and what there was has often become parking or storage. Green-belt work here means using the margins well: a line of tall, dense trees along the wall facing housing, shade over the yard, hardy natives that shrug off heat and dust. We plant what the consent requires where it will actually survive, keep the count on a simple plan, and arrange watering until the trees have come through two dry seasons.

Vasai MIDC is the town's planned industrial area, laid out east of the railway on the road inland from Vasai Road station. It is a working estate of modest plots rather than large campuses: engineering and fabrication shops, plastic moulders, packaging and printing units, and a number of small chemical and pharmaceutical formulators. Many units began as family businesses and are still run by the people who founded them or their children. Around the estate the land has filled with housing, shops and transport yards, so the boundary between industrial plot and neighbourhood is now mostly a compound wall. Some older plots have been sold, split or put to new uses.