eco-sensitive zone
In a reprieve to about 60,000 flat owners in Noida, the Union Environment Ministry has decided to declare 100 square metres around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary as a no-development or eco-sensitive zone. Senior government sources said percent that the ministry’s forest division tasked with demarcating eco-sensitive zones around wildlife parks and sanctuaries had submitted its report. [...] Continue Reading »
In a move which implies that the sole wild patch in the concrete jungles of Delhi and Faridabad may not get adequate protection, the Delhi government has recently declared only a 1km limit for the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around Asola wildlife sanctuary on the Delhi side. No ESZ with regard to the area around the [...] Continue Reading »
DLF’s Mall of India, which is coming up in Noida Sector 18 and has been billed as the country’s largest retail space, and four big-ticket realty projects in Sector 75 have been asked to stop all construction till they get a clearance from the National Board for Wildlife. The stop-work notices sent by the UP [...] Continue Reading »
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the UP government will together decide the outline of the eco-sensitive area around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The impending decision of the MoEF and the UP government with regard to outlining the 10km eco-sensitive zone in the periphery of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary will have an impact [...] Continue Reading »
The four-laning of 105-km stretch of National Highway-73 from Yamunanagar to Panchkula has been approved by The State Wildlife Board (SWLB). The NH-73 of 19.21-km, falls in the Khol Ki Ratan Wildlife Sanctuary and within the eco-sensitive zone (ECZ) of the sanctuary. As one of the two toll plazas falls in the ECZ of the [...] Continue Reading »
Noida- Many builders have received notices from the Gautam Budh Nagar district forest department for undertaking construction work within 10km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary without getting any clearances from the National Board for Wildlife. Within 10km radius of the sanctuary, 53 renowned developers of Delhi have planned to develop their projects. None of the [...] Continue Reading »
