Aravalli Protection: Supreme Court Stay on 100-Metre Rule Wins Public Support
Gustakhi Maaf Haryana – Pawan Kumar Bansal
Three cheers to social media and SC and its CJ Surya Kant for staying Aravalli order of 100 m criteria -Union Environment Minister Bhupinder Yadav and cabinet minister Manohar Lal should resign for shamelessly defending 100 m criteria.
Three cheers to social media and the Supreme Court for staying the 100-metre rule for the Aravallis, citing “public dissent.” Union Environment Minister Bhupinder Yadav and Cabinet Minister Manohar Lal, who had been shamelessly defending the 100-metre rule, should immediately resign if they have even a little morality.
The whole country and environmental activists have welcomed the Supreme Court’s judgment. Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, who headed the vacation bench that stayed the Supreme Court’s earlier decision of the 100-metre ban, hails from Haryana and has won the hearts of millions by his bold and landmark judgment. Ironically, the two villains of the entire drama—Bhupinder Yadav and Manohar Lal—also hail from Haryana.
The Supreme Court order noted that the Aravallis are the “green lungs” and an “indispensable ecological backbone” of North-Western India. Manohar Lal and Bhupinder Yadav had been propagating a “Jungle Safari” project in the Gurugram (Haryana) area of the Aravallis.
Vaishali Rana, our enlightened reader and Convenor of the “Save Aravallis Trust,” while welcoming the judgment, said that constant vigilance must continue. Ironically, Haryana’s Environment Minister Rao Narbir Singh has obtained a licence for his fourteen-acre resort in village Gairatpur, Gurugram, located in the Aravallis.
The mining mafia has emerged strongly in Haryana during the tenure of Manohar Lal as Chief Minister and has plundered the Aravallis. A DSP was crushed to death by the mafia, and its activities are still continuing in Haryana. The mafia blasted hills by taking advantage of jurisdictional clashes between Haryana and Rajasthan. While the mafia would blast hills in Haryana areas bordering Rajasthan, officers would argue that the activity occurred in Rajasthan.
The mafia even constructed pucca roads in Haryana areas to transport illegally extracted material. A Supreme Court bench has commented, “The mafia in Haryana is capable of protecting its interests and the interests of those officers who help them in running illegal mining.”
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who had launched an online campaign to save the Aravallis, was accused by Bhupinder Yadav and the BJP of spreading misinformation on the issue. Responding to these allegations, Gehlot said that Bhupinder Singh Yadav himself has a guilty conscience, alleging that in his own district Alwar, he wanted to start mining in the Sariska Tiger Reserve by changing its protected area status in June this year.