DLF residents hold protest

  • 22/09/2008

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

Residents of DLF (Phase-I), including cricketer Yuvraj Singh, today staged a demonstration at the new crossing on the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway demanding a ban on dumping of garbage in the vicinity of the posh residential area. Carrying banners and wearing masks to highlight their plight, the residents, including top corporate honchos, celebrities, eminent lawyers, CAs and doctors, assembled at the crossing to draw the attention of the HUDA authorities towards their failure to provide them respite from the menace. For the past two years, the residents have been forced to put up with foul smell emanating from the illegal garbage site, spread over 60 acres of protected forest land. More than 325 tonnes of garbage are dumped at the site daily.