In 2016, MCG carried out a study of 120 water our bodies in the town, and decided on 12 of them to restore inside a span of six months, at the basis of feasibility, catchment space and practicality. It was the most recent of a number of such promises made via the government in the past five years, from ones to remove encroachment from the water our bodies and their catchment, to their revival. However, these kinds of plans stay on paper.
The state executive, too, has also didn't reside up to its promises to restore water our bodies. Last yr, Haryana chief minister M L Khattar, whilst kicking off the ‘Jalvayu Sanrakshan Samiti’ in the town, introduced that a water body in the Sector 53 residential society Saraswati Kunj might be rejuvenated as a tourist spot. There’s no information on it since then.
TOI carried out a fact check, visiting 20 water our bodies in the past two weeks, including the 12 — in Sukhrali, Ghata, Badshapur, Fazilpur Jharsa, Wazirabad, Garauli Kalan, Basai, Sarai Alawardi, Jahazgarh, Kadipur, Sirhaul and Dhanwapur — that MCG has promised to restore. The TOI team discovered that so far, revival paintings has been carried out at simply two ponds, in Sukhrali and Kadipur. While a proposed walkway around the Sukhrali pond remains to be being constructed, at Kadipur, encroachment has been removed around the pond and a walkway built.
Predictably, the remainder are in a sorry state. Catchment spaces of lakes in Ghata, Jharsa and Badshapur had been encroached upon via land mafia and public infrastructure tasks, whilst spiritual puts, community halls and illegal colonies have arise at the lakes in Choma and Carterpuri. Meanwhile, the authorities have allowed personal gamers to carry out fish farming in Basai lake.
Sirhaul village, which once had two ponds, now has none. A community centre has been developed on one among them, whilst a park has been developed on part of the other. In Sikanderpur, a community centre has arise at the mattress of the pond, whilst a central authority faculty and a temple have arise at the beds of ponds in Mulahera and Carterpuri. According to an RTI response via block construction officers, nine water our bodies — including ones in Carterpuri, Gurugram village, Dundahera, Mulahera and Choma — are now fed most effective via sewage.
“The drawback is that almost all water our bodies in villages, which have been once a supply of potable water, are as of late observed as desert via authorities and citizens. Similarly, in city spaces, authorities by no means recognised those as attainable supply of groundwater recharge, and unnoticed them,” stated Kumar Shashwat of Development 2050, a water conservation NGO.
Vaishali Rana Chandra, who moved the NGT in 2017, searching for rapid elimination of illegal encroachments and cancellation of licences to builders at the mattress of Badshapur drain, stated, “It’s stunning how now not most effective have illegal settlements arise on most water our bodies, but authorities have also given licenses to personal builders to construct townships in catchment spaces and even on beds of lakes.”
MCG commissioner Yashpal Yadav stated, “We’re working at the restoration of all main water our bodies. We’re going to develop all water our bodies with walkways round them. We also are taking action towards encroachment.”
The state executive, too, has also didn't reside up to its promises to restore water our bodies. Last yr, Haryana chief minister M L Khattar, whilst kicking off the ‘Jalvayu Sanrakshan Samiti’ in the town, introduced that a water body in the Sector 53 residential society Saraswati Kunj might be rejuvenated as a tourist spot. There’s no information on it since then.
TOI carried out a fact check, visiting 20 water our bodies in the past two weeks, including the 12 — in Sukhrali, Ghata, Badshapur, Fazilpur Jharsa, Wazirabad, Garauli Kalan, Basai, Sarai Alawardi, Jahazgarh, Kadipur, Sirhaul and Dhanwapur — that MCG has promised to restore. The TOI team discovered that so far, revival paintings has been carried out at simply two ponds, in Sukhrali and Kadipur. While a proposed walkway around the Sukhrali pond remains to be being constructed, at Kadipur, encroachment has been removed around the pond and a walkway built.
Predictably, the remainder are in a sorry state. Catchment spaces of lakes in Ghata, Jharsa and Badshapur had been encroached upon via land mafia and public infrastructure tasks, whilst spiritual puts, community halls and illegal colonies have arise at the lakes in Choma and Carterpuri. Meanwhile, the authorities have allowed personal gamers to carry out fish farming in Basai lake.
Sirhaul village, which once had two ponds, now has none. A community centre has been developed on one among them, whilst a park has been developed on part of the other. In Sikanderpur, a community centre has arise at the mattress of the pond, whilst a central authority faculty and a temple have arise at the beds of ponds in Mulahera and Carterpuri. According to an RTI response via block construction officers, nine water our bodies — including ones in Carterpuri, Gurugram village, Dundahera, Mulahera and Choma — are now fed most effective via sewage.
“The drawback is that almost all water our bodies in villages, which have been once a supply of potable water, are as of late observed as desert via authorities and citizens. Similarly, in city spaces, authorities by no means recognised those as attainable supply of groundwater recharge, and unnoticed them,” stated Kumar Shashwat of Development 2050, a water conservation NGO.
Vaishali Rana Chandra, who moved the NGT in 2017, searching for rapid elimination of illegal encroachments and cancellation of licences to builders at the mattress of Badshapur drain, stated, “It’s stunning how now not most effective have illegal settlements arise on most water our bodies, but authorities have also given licenses to personal builders to construct townships in catchment spaces and even on beds of lakes.”
MCG commissioner Yashpal Yadav stated, “We’re working at the restoration of all main water our bodies. We’re going to develop all water our bodies with walkways round them. We also are taking action towards encroachment.”
Gurugram's water bodies dry up but revival plans still on paper
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June 14, 2018
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