Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has said that it will not allow the land allotment of the water bodies to be informed for public projects, even if there is no water accumulation and there is a patch of dry soil.
This case involved Lake Pragsar at Bhuj Town at Kutch, a part of where it was used as a parade foundation by the police department and was partially allocated for the construction of the fish market and mutton.
Bhuj Municipality has also planned the construction of Ren-Basera (Night Helly for urban homelessness) in the part of the plot, which resulted in revenue surveys number 736.
Claims the city of Bhujs there is no lake on the ground and only a drains through the area.
Applicant, Shriraj Gehil, an architect from Bhuj, claimed that the government’s record showed that all survey numbers had been marked as Lake Pragsar, and therefore the water bodies that were notified need to be protected from encroachment.
Photos of this area are supplied to court.
Justice J B B B Pardiwala and Justice V D Nanavati on Friday asked the state government to notify the court in two weeks whether the land was told the body of water or not and whether at a point in time, it was notified as a body body.
The court also asked if the government had told the body of the water.
If it is a water body that is told, how the government lets the Civic body use it for construction projects.
Bench said, “We will not come on the state of the state government, if you intend to share a plot of land for the purpose or public project.
However, this will submit to the fact that the land ration should not be part of the water body that is notified.
In other words , what we want to convey is if the revenue survey is the opposite is the body of the water told then whether water accumulates there or not, it will remain a body of water.
If that happens, the state government owes an explanation of what conditions allocate land to the Department of the Municipality and the police.
“HC also insisted that the government needed to protect the land by developing it.
“This is Kutch, where rain is very rare, very few.
You have to come out with dredging so that the water piles up on the ground,” said Justice Pardiwala.
Cannot round water body water even if it’s dry, said GUJ HC
