Chandigarh (Aaj Samaj)If the Punjab Government in its next cabinet meeting approves the proposed notification of the Punjab Forest and Wildlife Conservation Department, then the houses, shops, hospitals, religious places, hotels of consuls, karoans and NADA under the Municipal Council of Nayagaon of Mohali A district. A mountain of trouble will fall on Adi and there may be a situation that will topple him, says Punjab BJP leader Vineet Joshi, Nayagaon municipality councilor Surinder Kausish Babbal, councilor Pramod Kumar, councilor Bablu Kori, prominent worker social Atul Arora. Mazdoor Sena general secretary Madan Mandal, Brahma Kumaris Nayagaon chief Gyan Chand Andari, Mithlanchal Chhath Puja Committee general secretary Kameshwar Sah and Gau Seva chief Nayagaon Sushil Rohilla addressed the press conference. .
Joshi said that unlike its more than ten-year-old stand of maintaining 100 meters ESZ (Eco Sensitive Zone) around Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, now the Punjab Forest and Wildlife Conservation Department has proposed to maintain the ESZ up to 3 kilometers. This is all wrong sir. A maximum ESZ of 100 meters is sufficient for Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, which belongs to Category D and has been certified by the Indian Wildlife Institute, Dehradun, Government of India. How Punjab government officials could be so insensitive towards the two lakh poor and lower middle class population is beyond comprehension, Joshi said.
People who could not afford houses or flats in Chandigarh started building houses by purchasing small plots from farmers in Nayagaon and Kansal in the 1980s, and later built houses in Karoran and Nada villages. Considering the chaos created in this area due to the construction of houses, shops, etc. Without any legal provision, the Punjab government formed Nagar Panchayat in 2006 and upgraded it to Municipal Council in 2016. After this, the Nayagaon Municipal Council Master Plan was issued and then the notification of Zonal Plan and Building Regulations and , following these rules, people got approval from the Punjab Government and built houses, apartments, shops, hospitals, etc., according to the law.
Due to a decision by the upcoming cabinet, thousands of poor and lower middle class people who have built small houses with their life savings will be deprived of their properties. The irony is that the villages of Kansal, Nayagaon, Nada and Karoan existed even before the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary existed, but they will have to face punishment through no fault of their own.
