Summary:
The Raisina hillock was flattened in just two years. “It is high time the entire Aravalis is given the forest tag. Construction is not permitted in the entire area as it falls under ‘gair mumkin pahar’ (non-cultivable land) and the Aravali Notification. At one place, an entire hillock has disappeared to make way for a farmhouse.It took just 50 years for a fourth of the Aravali hills to get wiped out in Rajasthan , under the onslaught of large-scale mining. “About 200 farmhouses were identified in May this year, and DTCP was to raze the illegal construction in the area..