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Environmentalists, including a erstwhile Secretary astatine the Centre, person written to the Union Environment Ministry implicit harm to greenery adjacent the Yamuna floodplains astatine ITO ghat successful cardinal Delhi owed to debris and stone dumping, reportedly for a riverfront project.
When The Hindu visited the tract connected Thursday, respective trees were recovered damaged. Large quantities of rocks had been dumped on a roadworthy moving astir parallel to the stream from ITO ghat up to Drain No. 12, which flows into the Yamuna. At slightest 2 trees were seen afloat damaged and lying connected the ground.
Workers astatine the tract said the stones were being utilized to fortify the roadworthy truthful it could relation arsenic a bund during floods. They added that the road, located wrong the floodplains, would besides beryllium widened arsenic portion of the project. Portions of the implicit 400-metre agelong appeared to person already been expanded.
Near the drain gate, different spot of floodplain had been cleared of vegetation. Workers said a country was projected to beryllium constructed there. They said the enactment is being carried retired by a contractor connected behalf of the Delhi government. The Chief Minister’s Office did not remark till the clip of going to press. A Delhi authorities officer, however, said they were strengthening the bund.
