Gurgaon: Green belt encroachment may soon have financial consequences because the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority contemplates to implement a large fine of Rs 1,000 per square meter on violators.
At present, the authority can serve notifications to violators and after removing wild residents or seeking police intervention.
At the meeting of the GMDA Core Planning Cell (CPC) recently, officials proposed that several rules be required to protect the city green belt.
They state that this regulation is needed for the foreclosure of tools and machines if encroachment occurs, logging illegal trees and for the imposition of fines.
Officials told the Toi that the recommended proposal forced a fine of RS 1,000 per meter of wild residents.
However, the Chief Executive GMDA (CEO) Sudhir Rajpal, however, was maintained during the meeting that the provisions to deal with such violations already existed and suggested that no “parallel provisions” could be imposed because this could be seen as “abuse to the public”.
While Rajpal could not be contacted for comments, some GMDA officials told Ti that the proposal was still “being considered”.
The problem will also require approval at the GMDA meeting because it is a “policy or regulatory decision”, officials said.
“The decision was not made about the proposal at the last BPK meeting despite being placed in front of the cell.
The problem is still in the discussion,” said a senior official.
According to officials, the current steps that GMDA can use to eliminate encroachment, seeking police intervention means a period of a much longer towards resolution.
“The elimination of its own wild residents means that there is no consequence for violators or they have to pay compensation because there is no provision for a penalty,” added the official.
Environmental lovers, meanwhile, say there is a need for a strong punishment to prevent people from penetrating the green belt.
“There must be consequences for encroachment.
Only when people know there will be a penalty, will this stop,” said Vaishali Rana’s environmental lovers.
Plan GMDA RS 1K per sqm is good for penetrating the green belt
