Experts state Mangar land as uncultivable
Even as developers holding land in Mangar are making all out efforts to prove that the area does not have forest, a visit by an HT team revealed that most of the land is covered by thick Aravalli vegetation. It also has dense undergrowth. Hailed by environmental experts as the last remaining virgin forest area in the National Capital Region (NCR), the Mangar Bani is spread across Faridabad-Gurgaon in Haryana.
RPS Balwan said that since the past decade several builders and influential individuals have tried to buy patches of land in Mangar for development of farmhouses and other projects. Three infrastructure companies that own land in Mangar are now claiming that they have turned farmers. The companies have filed a case against local residents stating that nearly 500 acres of their land in Mangar is being encroached upon by the locals.
An additional bunch of 88 applications add that the companies had grown kharif crop, wheat, on a patch of their land in Mangar and is now also growing Bajra. HT found that the Bajra did not seem to have grown on the harvested patch, though wild species that had been uprooted had sprouted again. According to experts, the land is uncultivable.
Source: Hindustan Times
