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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) connected Monday ruled that the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) violated biology regulations successful the operation of a conception of the Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II), arsenic it encroached upon a wetland successful Goyla Khurd Village successful south-west Delhi.
On August 17 past year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the UER-II, aimed astatine reducing question time, easing postulation congestion wrong the city, and improving connectivity crossed the National Capital Region, on with the Delhi agelong of the Dwarka Expressway, vowing to alteration the nationalist superior into a “world-class city”.
“The Wetland Authority of Delhi successful its reply has clarified that the h2o assemblage of Village Goyla Khurd is simply a listed wetland and is required to beryllium protected... Thus, it is wide that the NHAI by constructing 8 pillars has encroached upon an country of 2.36 sqm. of the pond, which comes to astir 0.23% country of the pond,” work the NGT’s bid connected Monday.
