{"id":28630,"date":"2018-10-24T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28630"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:35:57","slug":"saving-delhis-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/saving-delhis-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Delhi\u2019s trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saving Delhi\u2019s trees<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli are environmental researchers at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, said Delhi residents are protesting against deforestation for construction projects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

    2. Delhi residents have been protesting against the government\u2019s approval for felling over 14,000 trees in South Delhi.<\/p>\n

    3. The National Buildings Construction Corporation is facing several criticisms in this regard.<\/p>\n

    4. The Corporation, tasked with redeveloping half a dozen south Delhi colonies, recently assured the Delhi High Court that no trees would be cut for the project.<\/p>\n

    5. The project involving huge investment was designed by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.<\/p>\n

    6. The project was approved \u00a0by the Union Cabinet in 2017.<\/p>\n

    7. They have been declared \u201csmart\u201d and \u201cgreen\u201d despite their ecological impacts such as high water usage and tree loss<\/p>\n

    8. The National Green Tribunal in September 2017 challenge these projects.<\/p>\n

    9. Atleast five of the seven projects received environment clearances between November and June.<\/p>\n

    10. From 2006, most construction projects have been approved based on an application form instead of detailed assessment reports.<\/p>\n

    11. In 2014, schools, colleges and hostels for educational institutions were exempted from taking environment clearances as long as they followed specific sustainability parameters.<\/p>\n

    12. In 2016, projects with areas of less than 20,000 sq m were permitted to proceed as long as they submitted a self-declaration ensuring adherence to environmental norms.<\/p>\n

    13. The residents are now appealing to the government to embrace inclusive ways of redesigning the city.<\/p>\n

    14. The governments could join hands by committing to review these projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Saving Delhi\u2019s trees Article: Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli are environmental researchers at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, said Delhi residents are protesting against deforestation for construction projects. Important Analysis: 2. Delhi residents have been protesting against the government\u2019s approval for felling over 14,000 trees in South Delhi. 3. The National Buildings Construction Corporation… Continue reading Saving Delhi\u2019s trees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703688419},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28630","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}