Capital may lose over 5,000 trees for Delhi-Saharanpur highway project
Delhi’s green cover may have to take a beating, this time to facilitate a highway project. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has submitted a proposal to clear 14.08 hectares of “forest” land in East and Northeast Delhi to make way for a six-lane road.
The proposal is for the Delhi-Saharanpur highway from the Akshardham NH-9 junction to the Delhi-UP border. The 14.75-km-long project falls under the Union government’s Bharatmala Pariyojana road development scheme.
Phase-1 of the project, in Delhi, will begin near Akshardham temple and end near the Delhi-UP border, while Phase 2 will start from the border and end at Khekra village, the project note read. The total length of the road will be 32.2 km.
