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Delhi: Expert panel creates 5-year plan to restore and manage Najafgarh lake -Shivam Patel

-The Indian Express

The plan lists a number of immediate, medium and long- term measures that need to be taken over five years to manage and restore the trans-boundary lake shared between Haryana and Delhi, which lies southwest of the capital.

An expert committee set up by the Delhi government has prepared an environmental management plan for Najafgarh lake on directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The plan lists a number of immediate, medium and long- term measures that need to be taken over five years to manage and restore the trans-boundary lake shared between Haryana and Delhi, which lies southwest of the capital.

The measures include notifying the lake under the Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules 2017, which would give the two states powers to keep a watch on prohibited activities such as encroachment of any kind, disposal of waste and discharge of untreated effluents in the water body.

“Najafgarh jheel is a critical natural infrastructure for the region, buffering floods, treating wastewater, recharging groundwater and providing habitat to numerous plant and animal species. The high ornithological value of the wetland is indicated by the presence of 281 bird species, including several threatened ones,” the report containing the management plan states.

Among the immediate measures recommended by the committee include demarcation of the lake boundary using geo-tagged pillars, setting up a Najafgarh Wetlands Committee, commissioning a hydrological assessment and putting in place a wetland assessment and monitoring system.

The committee, chaired by Delhi’s principal chief conservator of forests Ishwar Singh, gave its report to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), which submitted it to the Tribunal on Thursday. The NGT had directed in September that Haryana and Delhi should make a joint environmental management plan for the lake within three months.

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