GURUGRAM: Union minister and Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh has sought a detailed report on encroachment and illegal development allegedly performed by land sharks in the catchment house of Ghata take a look at dam.
Ghata is one of the necessary interlinking herbal water our bodies that feed Badshapur drain, which, in turn, carries storm water from a large a part of town to Najafgarh drain. Once spread across 370 acres, Ghata jheel house, including the lake and the dam, has been diminished to a mere 40 acres in rampant violations of laws that may result in a flood-like scenario in the town.
Sources mentioned the issue of encroachment and shrinking of the water frame was mentioned all through a meeting of Niti Aayog on Thursday on the depleting groundwater desk in Gurugram. Apart from the Niti Aayog members, the minister was also present.
“The minister sought a detailed report to make the Ghata dam encroachment loose. The dam will have to be revived to accumulate rainwater, thereby lend a hand recharge the groundwater,” states a unencumber sent by the minister’s place of job on Friday.
Acting on the minister’s instructions, officers of the wooded area division and town and nation making plans visited the dam to take inventory of the placement there on Friday.
As TOI reported on June 29, all of the catchment house of the dam has been encroached upon during the last six years or so. Further, development paintings was occurring a plot simply 50-feet away from the embankment wall. The spillway gate of the take a look at dam has been encroached upon too, raising concerns that it is going to be sooner or later demolished to make approach for other constructions.
According to wooded area officers, the Ghata dam is a notified secure house and any non-forest job is illegitimate there. But sources mentioned the land have been offered off and the development undertaking was licensed by the authorities involved.
Sharmila Kaushik, a resident of Valley View, a housing society on Gurugram-Faridabad Road, who was the primary to report the violation, mentioned, “I'm satisfied the issue has were given the eye of the authorities. However, I don’t think it is a proper decision to invite the authorities in Haryana to arrange a report on the harm that has been caused with their consent. The authorities in the town have been smartly aware of the destruction, but they offered off the catchment house of the dam to for short-term beneficial properties.”
Vaishali Rana Chandra, another resident, echoed Kaushik and mentioned, “A committee will have to be made with members from MoEF and NCRPB as all water our bodies in the house come fall inside the herbal conservation zone. If only the authorities of Haryana are given the duty to arrange a report on the subject, it will be not anything greater than an eyewash.”
Kaushik and Chandra had filed a petition in NGT after Gurujam 2016, challenging removal of encroachments from the Badshapur nallah and its catchment spaces. Also, they sent a felony notice to Huda and MCG ultimate Monday in opposition to concretisation of the Badshapur drain.
Many feeder streams and tributaries from the east and the west sign up for the Badshapur drain at Ghata dam. The drain winds against Sohna Road from Ghata and sooner or later crosses NH-Eight close to Hero Honda Chowk sooner than flowing into the Najafagrah drain in Delhi.
Ghata is one of the necessary interlinking herbal water our bodies that feed Badshapur drain, which, in turn, carries storm water from a large a part of town to Najafgarh drain. Once spread across 370 acres, Ghata jheel house, including the lake and the dam, has been diminished to a mere 40 acres in rampant violations of laws that may result in a flood-like scenario in the town.
Sources mentioned the issue of encroachment and shrinking of the water frame was mentioned all through a meeting of Niti Aayog on Thursday on the depleting groundwater desk in Gurugram. Apart from the Niti Aayog members, the minister was also present.
“The minister sought a detailed report to make the Ghata dam encroachment loose. The dam will have to be revived to accumulate rainwater, thereby lend a hand recharge the groundwater,” states a unencumber sent by the minister’s place of job on Friday.
Acting on the minister’s instructions, officers of the wooded area division and town and nation making plans visited the dam to take inventory of the placement there on Friday.
As TOI reported on June 29, all of the catchment house of the dam has been encroached upon during the last six years or so. Further, development paintings was occurring a plot simply 50-feet away from the embankment wall. The spillway gate of the take a look at dam has been encroached upon too, raising concerns that it is going to be sooner or later demolished to make approach for other constructions.
According to wooded area officers, the Ghata dam is a notified secure house and any non-forest job is illegitimate there. But sources mentioned the land have been offered off and the development undertaking was licensed by the authorities involved.
Sharmila Kaushik, a resident of Valley View, a housing society on Gurugram-Faridabad Road, who was the primary to report the violation, mentioned, “I'm satisfied the issue has were given the eye of the authorities. However, I don’t think it is a proper decision to invite the authorities in Haryana to arrange a report on the harm that has been caused with their consent. The authorities in the town have been smartly aware of the destruction, but they offered off the catchment house of the dam to for short-term beneficial properties.”
Vaishali Rana Chandra, another resident, echoed Kaushik and mentioned, “A committee will have to be made with members from MoEF and NCRPB as all water our bodies in the house come fall inside the herbal conservation zone. If only the authorities of Haryana are given the duty to arrange a report on the subject, it will be not anything greater than an eyewash.”
Kaushik and Chandra had filed a petition in NGT after Gurujam 2016, challenging removal of encroachments from the Badshapur nallah and its catchment spaces. Also, they sent a felony notice to Huda and MCG ultimate Monday in opposition to concretisation of the Badshapur drain.
Many feeder streams and tributaries from the east and the west sign up for the Badshapur drain at Ghata dam. The drain winds against Sohna Road from Ghata and sooner or later crosses NH-Eight close to Hero Honda Chowk sooner than flowing into the Najafagrah drain in Delhi.
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