Gurugram: The government Haryana has proposed that it will declare the area around Lake Najafgarh as a wetland.
This has been submitted to the Center for Environmental Management Plan on how to protect the lake.
The report will eventually be submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
According to the plan, Haryana will notify the area under the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) regulation, 2017 and start the process of limiting it with a pillar marked by geographical.
This will also be a wetland committee to oversee the entire process.
There is no construction, plan proposing, will be permitted in ‘danger zone’.
Haryana will also find an alternative connectivity plan for settlements in two ends of the lake, which will greatly reduce vehicle traffic, especially when migratory birds gather to the area.
Officials said that the area around the lake was told as a wet area, it would give Haryana and Delhi (some parts of the water in the NCT) which were the same as the power to continue to keep an eye on the prohibited activities, such as encroachment, waste disposal.
and let go of waste that is not treated into the water.
RK Chauhan, Joint Director in the Department of Environment and Climate Change, “Yes, we have submitted a plan for Lake Najafgarh protection.
This is a detailed report on how Haryana plans to manage the area.” The plan, officials said, divided into three parts – actions Immediately in a year in the first part, medium steps for two to three years ahead of the next section and long-term steps in the last section.
The Haryana Government Management Plan is needed by the NGT command, who hears the petition submitted by Indian national trust for cultural arts and heritage (Intach) in 2018 for lake protection.
The Delhi government, who is also the party for this case, submitted its plans in March this year.
In June, NGT had asked Secretary of the Head Haryana to attend the management plan at the next hearing on October 4, but the government was looking for more time.
The next hearing is on January 25.
Spreaded at 7 square kilometers, Lake Najafgarh is very important for the region because it acts as a big aquifer to refill groundwater.
Many tributaries from Aravalists flow to the lake, and further into Yamuna.
According to the plan conveyed by the government, the water body acts as a flood buffer, helps treat water and regulate the temperature, and is a biodiversity hotspot.
Ruit Ruo, a research scholar at the Teri School of Advanced Study who is working on the sustainability of the Urban Waterbodies, said, “The Lake Najafgarh area will definitely be declared a wetland.
Only the wastewater treated tertiary that must be disposed of to the lake.
The government must also declare the zone without Construction to a high flood rate (contour 212.5 mamms) because the area is susceptible to disbursement (in terms of the earthquake, the land begins to behave like the liquid, causing the building in the area to the slope or even collapse).
This is naturally wetlands and Being under the Seismic Zone IV.
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