Gurgaon: The drone survey conducted by the Ministry of Forestry has revealed that violators have penetrated around 250 hectares of forest areas in the city.
From this, almost 225 hectares are under the Punjab Land Conservation Act (PLPA), while 25 hectares are in the Aravali plantation area.
This happened after the department analyzed the first draft from the Aravali regional drone survey in the city.
Survey 7,019 hectares of forest areas in the city completed on August 27.
The department said the final analysis of the survey would take a few more days.
This drone survey began on August 7 in Gurgaon and four teams were deployed with one drone each to carry out a survey.
Until now, around 580 notifications of causes showed it was sent to the owner of illegal structures in the Aravalis area that was sensitive to ECO.
The Supreme Court on July 23 ordered the government Haryana not to set aside illegal structures in Aravalis, including agricultural houses, commercial companies, and religious structures, during the ongoing demolition journey in Khori Village.
“We have made demolition in the forest area to free them from encroachment.
More notifications will be sent after getting the final analysis of the report,” said Rajeev Tajyan, division forest officers, Gurgaon.
It is estimated that more than 1,000 illegal structures are in the Aravali Gurgaon region.
This includes farming, nurseries, slums and clusters.
According to the Department of Forestry survey, illegal structures are concentrated in areas such as GwalPahari, Gairatpur, Sohna, Raisina and Manesar.
A total of 38 villages in Gurgaon and 17 villages in Faridabad determined land notified under 4 and 5 PLPA, especially in Aravali public land.
More than half of the aravalis from the two districts were told under 4 and 5 PLPA.
It is important to note that this is the only Aravali area with a ‘forest’ tag.
The remaining arabavalism is not recognized as a ‘forest’ by the state government.
Meanwhile, the forestry department officials have drives demolition in Ghata.
About 10 hectares of forest land have been spread by the structure in the area, which falls under Section 4 and 5 PLPA, 1900.
There are no non-forest activities permitted in the area.
Last year, the survey was conducted by the Ministry of Forestry to evaluate encroachment in the city forest area.
According to the report, there are at least 500 farms built illegally in Aravali land.
The detailed list of this structure was submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Sonya Ghosh vs.
State of Haryana Case last year.
The report also has details of the total area occupied by them and their location.
Forest Minister Kanwal Pal Gujjar last year said the total 60 illegal farm houses were built in Aravalis – 50 in Faridabad and 10 in Gurgaon – between 2000 and 2020.