Bill seeking to lift Aravali legal cover may be tabled today
The Haryana government is likely to table the bill amending the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA) 1900, which gives protection to large portions of the Aravali foothills and the Shivaliks, in the assembly on Friday. If the bill goes through, it will have major ramifications for NCR as the 118-year-old law will cease to apply in all of Gurugram and most of Faridabad, among other areas, lifting the bar on construction activity in thousands of acres that now come under PLPA, as TOI had reported on February 15. According to the amendment bill — called Punjab Land Preservation (Haryana Amendment) Act, 2019 — areas included under any development plan and under the jurisdiction of municipal acts will be out of the ambit of PLPA. Moreover, land that is part of any infrastructure like railway, roads, canals, public institutions, government or public establishments will also go out of the purview of PLPA.
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