No less than 211 ponds in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district have been encroached on, with constructions developing at a number of locations, a report submitted by District Justice of the Peace Manish Kumar Verma earlier than the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal (NGT) has revealed.
In keeping with the report submitted on July 20, there are 1,018 ponds within the district, and of those, round 20 per cent or 211 ponds throughout Jewar, Sadar and Dadri tehsils have been encroached by land mafia and others.
“There are a complete of 293 ponds in Jewar tehsil and there may be an encroachment on 29 ponds. A complete of 168 instances have been registered on this regard and eviction orders have been issued. A complete of two.81 hectares of land is roofed in these orders. A lot of the pond space has been encroached by constructing homes and persons are residing within the area,” the report states.
Verma additional states that the UP authorities had issued an order on October 19, 2023, saying that the poor and homeless can solely be evicted after making housing preparations for them.
“There are a complete of 245 ponds in Tehsil Sadar and out of this 48 ponds are encroached. A complete of 353 instances are registered on this regard, which covers the land of 5.41 hectare space…There are a complete of 480 ponds in Tehsil Dadri and there may be encroachment on 134 ponds. A complete of 283 instances have been registered, eviction notices have been issued in 249 instances, which covers an space of three.69 hectares,” the report with images additional states.
Joint groups of income, authority and improvement division officers are taking additional motion associated to eviction and so forth, as per the report.
In keeping with the report, among the villages the place ponds have been encroached are Rabupura, Tirthali and Bhaipur Brahmanan in Jewar; Salarpur Kalan, Raipur Bangar, Roopvas, Kirachpur Urf Kailashpur, Tilpata Karanvas, Thapkheda, Chhayansa, Anandpur in Dadri; and Ladpura, Surajpur, Bhatta, Salempur Gurjar, Chirsi, Atai Muradpur in Sadar.
The NGT is listening to a petition relating to the restoration of water our bodies, together with ponds, in Gautam Buddha Nagar district. Over the last listening to on March 19, the tribunal directed Yamuna Authority, Noida Authority and Larger Noida Authority to submit an motion plan in a tabular format with all related particulars indicating the identify of the pond/wetland, standing relating to encroachment, rejuvenation/rehabilitation measures taken/to be undertaken, timeline for the actions to be carried out with budgetary estimates, the executing company and the monitoring mechanism.
The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Growth Authority (YEIDA) submitted that it has already accomplished the rejuvenation work of 31 ponds inside its jurisdiction and work on 12 ponds is ongoing.
“YEIDA has additionally ready an motion plan to rejuvenate 155 ponds inside its jurisdiction. As detailed within the motion plan, the proposed rejuvenation and restoration work would require an estimated funding of Rs 35.64 crore,” reads the YEIDA report, including that 41 tenders have been issued for the rejuvenation and restoration of 51 ponds. The authority additional mentioned that 18 ponds in its space are affected by encroachment.
Equally, the Noida Authority mentioned that there are 40 ponds in its space with encroachments. The Authority mentioned that it isn’t within the possession of those ponds and has written to the district Justice of the Peace to take acceptable motion.
“The rejuvenation/improvement work of ponds falling in class ‘D’ is proposed to be accomplished by the Noida Authority inside a yr from the date of similar being handed over by district administration after making it encroachment free,” the Authority mentioned.
The Larger Noida Authority is but to submit its report.