National Green Tribunal upholds order on reckless concretization

NOIDA: The National Green Tribunal on Thursday reinforced a 2001 UP government order to preserve rapidly declining levels of groundwater in Ghaziabad and to restrict reckless concretization of urban areas. The order, issued by the UP chief secretary in April, 2001, stipulates that no more than 5% of parks and green areas be covered with concrete or tiles.

The implementation orders were issued by the principal bench of the tribunal on a petition in which it has been alleged that large-scale tiling and concretization of urban landscape has restricted natural groundwater resources and is threatening urban biodiversity in the long run.
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