{"id":248577,"date":"2023-06-19T19:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248577"},"modified":"2023-06-19T19:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:17:33","slug":"greenwashed-aravalis-to-goa-rules-are-being-tweaked-to-allow-ecologically-dangerous-projects-and-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/greenwashed-aravalis-to-goa-rules-are-being-tweaked-to-allow-ecologically-dangerous-projects-and-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwashed – Aravalis to Goa, rules are being tweaked to allow ecologically dangerous projects and mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/b>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cGreenwashed – Aravalis to Goa, rules are being tweaked to allow ecologically dangerous projects and mining\u201d<\/b>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a019th <\/strong>June\u00a0<\/b>2023<\/b><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About protecting Indian hill ranges.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: A recent study found that India might lose 22% of Aravallis, India\u2019s oldest mountain range, in just 40 years, from 2019 to 2059.<\/p>\n

What are the findings of the study on Aravali hillocks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here: 100s of Aravali hillocks flattened, sandstorms reaching Delhi-NCR: Study<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Aravalis acts as a natural boundary to the Thar Desert and is a natural water recharge facility. But, a flattening Aravali will speed up the desertification of the entire area.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the causes for flattening Aravalis?<\/h2>\n

These include a)<\/strong> Indiscriminate mining, b)<\/strong> Environmental laws are routinely diluted by a slew of exemptions, lacunae and reconversions from forest to non-forest land, c)<\/strong> Intrusions from developers, urban city departments and state governments into protected eco-zones, and d)<\/strong> Allocation of Aravali lands for housing projects of the government.<\/p>\n

Why the issue is not persistent in Aravalis alone?<\/h2>\n

These are common causes.\u00a0Forests, lakes and fields from Uttarakhand to Rajasthan, Haryana to Goa and the North East are being depleted by developers to build everything from yoga resorts to film studios.<\/p>\n

For example, the recent Goa government regulation freed up 6 crore square metres of Goa\u2019s eco-sensitive zone land for sale. In Uttarakhand, policies were altered and rules amended to make mining easier.<\/p>\n

The focus on infrastructure development by depleting eco-sensitive zones is myopic. Deforestation and melting glaciers have made hill states vulnerable to mudslides and landslides. So, irreversible\u201d damage to ecology must stop as requested by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

When the government can ban 10 year old diesel cars to protect the environment, then it can do much more to protect a hill range and a seaside ecological zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cGreenwashed – Aravalis to Goa, rules are being tweaked to allow ecologically dangerous projects and mining\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a019th June\u00a02023 Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation. Relevance: About protecting Indian hill ranges. News: A recent study found that India might lose 22% of Aravallis, India\u2019s oldest… Continue reading Greenwashed – Aravalis to Goa, rules are being tweaked to allow ecologically dangerous projects and mining<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-248577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700771847,"cached_date":1704839279},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}