NEW DELHI: A law that was meant to reverse fragmentation of agricultural land, appears to have been rampantly abused in Haryana to allow influential private players get possession of hilly and non-

Environmentalists and several residents’ welfare associations have termed the 340 hectare groundwater recharge zone in the Sohna Final Development Plan- 2031 “grossly inadequate” and “unsustainable

Gurgaon, December 2: The city residents have approached President Pranab Mukherjee urging him to intervene and save Aravali forest.

New Delhi: The city will soon have a special committee on biodiversity for 10,000 hectares designated for the purpose.

The Haryana government has chosen to bypass the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in order to have prime Aravalli forest land transferred to build a golf course.

Instead, they have submitted an application directly in the Supreme Court where they have shown 160 acres of Aravalli forest land to be “barren land”. This, they believe can be converted to build a golf course, waterways and an amusement park. The Aravalli forest stretch that the developers are eyeing is part of a 350 acre Aravalli forest stretch.

Haryana’s forest cover might be only one-sixth of the target that the state has set for itself by 2020 but this has not stopped the state government from eyeing more green areas for development act

It is now a well established fact that real estate development contributes immensely to the growth and development of the nation through the numerous forward and backward linkages with the economy.

Notwithstanding the ban on mining in Haryana's Aravali, members of a mining mafia attacked three persons in a nearby village in their attempt to quarry sand and clay.

New Delhi: Urbanization, road expansion and illegal mining seem to have taken a toll on the green cover in the national capital region (NCR) between 2000 and 2009.

A day after the Haryana government notified the Mangar Development Plan, the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) had written to the state asking it to put the plan in abeyance.