The committee which conducted investigation in Sushant Lok in October, found that the developer Ansal API Limited had committed a large number of environmental violations, such as encroachments in green areas, illegal extraction of ground water, dumping of untreated sewage in stormwater drains, among others.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its order issued on January 8, 2019, has ordered action against the developer of Sushant Lok-1 for several environmental violations committed within the premises of the residential colony.
Shushant Lok-1 was developed by Ansal API Limited in the late 1980s, and the colony is spread across sectors 27, 28, 43, and 52 of the city.
In September 2018, the NGT had received a complaint in this regard from a resident of the colony, following which it appointed a five-member committee, comprising officials of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the district town planning department, the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, the Central Groundwater Authority(cwga) and the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority(seiaa), and ordered it to submit a factual report.
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“Committee’s report has revealed encroachments like hutment for security/labors, DG sets, kitchen gardens in earmarked green areas. And green belts have not been developed according to the norms of the licence by the developer as well [sic]” stated the NGT order, directing the committee to exercise its statutory power to take action against the violations within three months.
A member of the committee, on condition of anonymity said, “The CPCB will send notices to all the concerned government departments to implement the NGT order.”
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Town and country planning department, Haryana, granted licence to Ansal API in 1980s to develop Sushant Lok-1, located along the MG Road. However, the residential colony is likely to be handed over to the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) for civic maintenance.
“It is also clear that despite serious violations, all the concerned officials have failed to perform their duties in taking statutorily actions to fix the violations and specially the Town and Country Planning Department appears to have colluded with the developer[sic],” said NGT order said, directing the CPCB, which headed the committee, to exercise its statutory power to determine and recover the damages and initiating prosecution in accordance with the law.