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Gurgaon, Sep 13 (PTI) A Haryana government committee has advised officials to identify the areas under the Aravallis on the basis of Centre"s 1992 notification, which only covers old Gurgaon district areas.The announcement has prompted environmentalists to ask whether the provisions of the National Conservation Zone (NCZ) will not be applicable to Aravalli areas in Faridabad.
The revenue records only identify “gair mumkin pahar” (hilly areas which are uncultivable) while making no mention of "Aravalli", said the committee.
The committee, in a recent meeting, has advised the officials concerned that on the basis of a 1992 notification of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), the areas under the Aravallis should be identified.A meeting of the state-level committee (SLC) was held under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary, Town and Country Planning, A K Singh, on August 9 for “ground-truthing” of the NCZ in Haryana sub region of the National Capital Region.
In the meeting, the district-level sub-committees, which also comprise deputy commissioners, were asked to identify the Aravallis going by the Centre"s 1992 notification, which environmentalists claim, will effectively keep “gair mumkin pahar” outside the NCZ and thus restrictions on construction activity in Aravalli areas in Faridabad will not be applicable.
“It has been noted that in the revenue record there is no term namely "Aravalli" rather there is only mention of ‘gair mumkin pahar’.
Accordingly, some of the districts have identified the areas recorded as "gair mumkin pahar", in revenue record, under the NCZ by considering the same as Aravalli”, according to the observations during the SLC meeting.