Govt. takes 22 acres of green in exchange for 9

  • 16/06/2002

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

Conservationists are up in arms at the Urban Development Ministry's recent decision to convert a 22 acre green patch in the heart of Delhi into a concrete jungle. The contentious market as a 'green patch' in the Masterplan. The Ministry has however that it would be altering the Masterplan to bring about this change. DRDO plant to occupy green patch of Lutyen's Delhi near Sena Bhawan. It will be going in the face of recommendations made by the M N Buch Committee that said 'any interference by densification and high-rise construction would tantamount to a crime'.