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The Congress connected Monday (December 29, 2025) claimed that not conscionable mining, but the existent property improvement that is being opened up by the double-engine authorities successful Rajasthan volition origin further havoc successful an "already devastated" ecosystem of the Aravallis.
Congress wide caput and erstwhile Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said this is being done against the recommendations of the Forest Survey of India.
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"As the federation awaits the Supreme Court's latest directives connected the Aravallis, present is much grounds of however the caller explanation of the Aravallis volition origin further havoc successful an already devastated ecosystem.
"It is not conscionable mining but existent property improvement that is being opened up by the double-engine sarkar successful New Delhi-Jaipur against the recommendations of the Forest Survey of India," Mr. Ramesh said successful a station connected X.
The Congress has been powerfully opposed to the redefinition of the Aravallis and has raised concerns implicit it, claiming that this volition pb to destroying the hills by opening them to mining, existent property and different projects.
Amid the enactment implicit the explanation of the Aravalli hills approved by it, the Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the contented and is slated to perceive the substance connected Monday (December 29, 2025).
The apical tribunal connected November 20 had accepted a azygous explanation of the Aravalli hills and ranges and banned the assistance of caller mining leases wrong its areas spanning Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat until experts' reports are out.
The apex tribunal had accepted the recommendations of a committee of the MoEF&CC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) connected the explanation of the Aravalli hills and ranges to support the world's oldest upland system.
The committee recommended that "Aravalli Hill" volition beryllium defined arsenic immoderate landform successful designated Aravalli districts with an elevation of 100 metres oregon much supra its section relief, and an "Aravalli Range" volition beryllium a postulation of 2 oregon much specified hills wrong 500 metres of each other.
