Category: News

DDA officers’ role in approving Vasant Kunj mall under scanner

Source: The Hindu, 10 August, 2006

With the Ministry of Environment and Forests acknowledging before Supreme Court that the entire Vasant Kunj mall project was illegal as it had come up on Ridge land, which is a water recharge zone, in violation of the Master Plan for Delhi, and that Delhi Development Authority did not exercise necessary environmental caution while taking up the plan, the role of senior DDA officers has come under scrutiny. Read more

Delhi ridge dwellers face eviction

Source: NDTV.com, 21 July, 2006

Tribes at Bhatti Mines in Delhi are concerned as they face calls for their eviction by the Supreme Court. More than 25,000 of them have settled on the Ridge for decades but the court has said the 7700-acre area should be cleared. Nandagopal, 65, and four others are on fast to insist that authorities hear them. Read more