Ghaziabad: City-based environmentalists and a section of councillors have been protesting against the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation’s (GMC) proposal to construct underground parking on Ambedkar park land near its head office.
In a bid to stall the project, councillor Rajendra Tyagi has written to the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) against the move. Citing the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act. 1973 and UP Parks & Playground Act, 1975, Tyagi said: “It is violative of Section 13 of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973, as the construction on an area reserved for park alters and destroys the area.”
“The power to alter the land use pattern of the park rests with GDA, and without its approval, it cannot be done. So, we have written to the authority saying GMC is the maintenance agency and it cannot carry out the project,” added Tyagi.
GDA has long tried to rein in illegal colonies and a few years ago stopped the registries of such colonies.
GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has identified over 320 illegal colonies in the district and it plans to make the list public so that buyers exercise caution while investing in such colonies. The list will soon be uploaded on GDA’s portal.
In fact, GDA has long tried to rein in illegal colonies and a few years ago stopped the registries of such colonies. Unauthorised colonies have put an additional burden on the city s resources and in the absence of effective mechanisms, the development authority has often failed to monitor the safety standard resulting in building collapse incidents, according to officials.
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