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Senior Congress person Sachin Pilot connected Friday (December 26, 2025) warned that the Centre’s redefinition of the Aravalli hills could portion distant extortion from astir 90% of the range, posing sedate ecological risks, including enlargement of the Thar Desert up to Delhi.
Mr. Pilot joined the National Students’ Union of India’s (NSUI) ‘Save Aravalli – Save the Future’ march successful Jaipur, accompanied by his lad who made his archetypal quality connected a governmental stage. The Aravallis, Mr. Pilot stressed, enactment arsenic a earthy shield against aerial pollution, sphere groundwater, and prolong biodiversity. “If the Aravallis are destroyed, the godforsaken could scope Delhi,” helium cautioned.
Police stopped the march astatine the Government Hostel intersection successful Jaipur citing support limits, aft which the protestation concluded peacefully.
Citing Forest Survey of India (FSI) data, Mr. Pilot said the Centre’s explanation would exclude astir of the range. “There are 1.18 lakh hills beneath 100 metres and lone 1,048 supra 100 metres. This means astir 90% of the Aravalli country would spell extracurricular the explanation and go unprotected,” helium explained.
Green washing: On the Supreme Court, mining successful the Aravallis
The Congress person dismissed authorities assurances that nary enactment would hap without support arsenic “misleading” noting that akin restrictions person existed for 2 decades without curbing amerciable mining. “Despite these bans, mining continues nether the government’s nose. What steps are being taken to halt it?” helium asked.
Mr. Pilot underscored the Aravallis’ relation successful preventing desertification and protecting ecology. “Whether it is aerial pollution, groundwater, oregon biodiversity, the Aravalli acts arsenic a information shield,” helium said, questioning the government’s intent. “Is the authorities helpless, nether pressure, oregon simply lacking intent?” He criticised repeated clarifications without ineligible action, pointing retired that the Centre has not approached the Supreme Court to resoluteness the explanation issue.
Alleging a broader governmental design, Mr. Pilot accused BJP governments astatine the Centre and successful Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi of acting to “destroy the Aravalli range”. “All these governments look to beryllium racing to spot however accelerated the Aravallis tin beryllium wiped out,” helium said.
