As the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s concrete mixers and excavator machines lumber around close to the KBR National Park making gigantic cavities into the earth and piling up concrete into the steel reinforcement as part of the H-CITI project, an inconspicuous yet significant fight still goes on in the Telangana High Court.
The fight is against the mega project that envisions the park besieged by seven flyovers and seven underpasses, even before its legal boundaries are determined, fixed and set in stone.
The petitioners, Kaajal Maheshwari, Jasveen Jairath and Sagar Dhara, have waged a pitched battle with the State and central governments, challenging the notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, fixing the Eco Sensitive Zone for the park without following the due process.
Letter to the MOEF&CC flags modifications in KBR National Park
They are additionally armed with the Supreme Court order from three years ago, fixing a minimum of one-kilometre Ecologically sensitive zones (ESZ) around all national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.
