Civic body should not tolerate environmental violation
A stretch of Parsik hill range — from Rabale to Digha — will be a tourist
destination. Hence plantation drive is taking place here, one in the periphery of Digha dam area and the
other in nearby Mumbradevi hill area in Rabale.
It is a good idea to beautify this hill in order to turn it into a
tourist attraction. But after developing
a green patch over here Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has to prevent any
kind of encroachment. Making the
city green is a great idea. But to achieve this goal many precautions have to
be taken.
In Navi Mumbai it is noticed that a lot of unauthorised activities take
place where there are mangroves. There is one mangrove region in the city where
there is a lot of debris dumped inside this restricted green zone and some
workers are constructing a concrete platform. It is damaging the mangroves and
is a clear violation of the Environment Protection Act. Such illegal activities
ar3e taking place so close to the NMMC head office in Belapur and yet the civic
body is not able to take any action.
Some civic contractors are behind this illegal structure work being
carried out within the mangroves. A type of platform is being made so as to
allow people to do yoga on it. This is further destroying the mangroves. Some of the green-white
forest department poles installed here to demarcate the mangroves line also
seem to be damaged; while some appear to be displaced.
If there are any environmental violations found having been done by civic
officials then NMMC should not hesitate to take appropriate action against them
too.
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