Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice on a plea alleging large-scale, excessive and indiscriminate concretization of roadsides and constructions in parks in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad.
A bench headed by Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava sought the response of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Uttar Pradesh government, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam, and others in the matter.
The plea filed by advocate Akash Vashishtha claimed that indiscriminate concretization and paving become the biggest cause of water-logging, urban flooding, prevention of natural water recharge, heat multiplication, and loss of biodiversity in cities and towns.
It said that indiscriminate concretization/pavements of roadsides and road berms and constructions inside parks is in gross contravention of various orders of the NGT, guidelines of the Union Ministry of Urban Development and also GO issued by the UP government.
