NGT seeks reply from Centre, Delhi govt over permission to a park for organising events

New Delhi, The National Green Tribunal has sought a reply from the Centre and others in a matter regarding the civic body in the national capital granting permission for organising cultural events in a south Delhi park. NGT seeks reply from Centre, Delhi govt over permission to a park for organising events The Tribunal was hearing a plea seeking directions to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation to modify permission granted for organising the cultural event at Baba Mangal Das Park in Aya Nagar, besides immediately restricting the permission to hold cultural events in its adjoining kaccha area. In an order passed on September 27, a bench of judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member A Senthil Vel noted the plea which stated that on the request and demand of the residents, an area measuring about 1.5 acres out of undeveloped barren land measuring about three acres situated in Aya Nagar in south Delhi was allotted by the Delhi government to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for development of a park. "Besides cutting, shifting, uprooting, and pruning of trees, hedges and bushes, the park will also be damaged by use and ingress outgress by the thousands of visitors," the bench said noting the plea.