Bhopal. A hearing was held in the National Green Tribunal on Thursday regarding the construction of the new Collectorate building to be built in the Professor Colony of the capital. During the hearing, the NGT bench has ordered to form a four-member team to investigate this matter. Based on the investigation report of this committee, the bench can give its decision in the next hearing, till then there will be an undeclared ban on the construction of new buildings.
Gave instructions to form a committee
Harshvardhan Tiwari, counsel for petitioner Nitin Saxena in NGT, said that SIA (State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority) has given permission for the construction of a new collectorate building in the area adjacent to the small pond in Professor Colony. To grant permission for construction, only the distance of 33 meters from the FTL of the big pond was mentioned, whereas this colony is completely adjacent to the small pond, which was not mentioned. Therefore, now the bench has given instructions to form a four-member committee to investigate this matter.
Four hi-tech buildings will be built for Rs 500 crore
The new Collectorate building in Professor Colony is to be built in 1.5 lakh square feet. In this, it has come to light that four hi-tech 5G buildings will be built. New collectorates, bridges and other bungalows are also to be built. This entire project is worth around Rs 500 crores. It will be constructed under redensification. Before shifting the Collectorate here, proposals were prepared at three places, but this place has been finalized.
These will be the members of the committee
The State Label Committee will have one member each from SIA (State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority), MOEF (Ministry of Environment and Forests), Central Pollution Control Board and State Wetland Authority Bhopal, who will present the investigation report in the next hearing. 6 weeks time has been given for this. Now the hearing of this case will be on 21 November 2023.
