NOIDA: A team of Noida Authority visited Sector 48 on Friday and asked the marble traders to remove encroachment within three days, according to NGT order. The entire market has come up illegally on Noida Authority’s green belt area in the last ten years. The Authority team warned the squatters that action will be taken against them if they did not follow the order.Noida Authority had developed the sector and also earmarked around seven acre land for green belt according to its Master Plan 2021. However, over the years most of the green area was encroached with marble traders, godowns and showrooms. Local residents approached the Authority and administration to free the land but that did not yield any result.A resident of the sector said that a petition was filed in National Green Tribunal to free the land from squatters in 2017. In August 2018 the NGT directed the Noida Authority to remove all the encroachment in the area of green belt, except those marked in Master Plan. “Land which is cleared from the encroachment shall immediately be restored as green belt,” the NGT said. However, the following month a group of traders moved an application in NGT seeking a stay on its previous order. The tribunal heard the matter and gave them three months to clear the encroachment.Rajesh Kumar Singh, OSD Noida Authority, said that the traders have been told to remove the structures within three days. “Authority will clear the encroachment and develop green belt on the earmarked land. Actions will be taken against the violators,” he said.

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