As directed by NGT, the Ministry Of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in consultation with Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) on 18 August 2015, approved 2014 draft notification of eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary.

The Union environment ministry announced that a final notification on this will be issued within a week. This draft notification of Okhala Eco-Sensitive Zone issued by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. Under the draft notification, the eco-sensitive zone is the area up to 100 meter from eastern, western and southern boundary and up to 1.27 kms from the northern boundary of the Okhla bird sanctuary up to the DND flyover across the river bed, situated in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh and southeast district of Delhi.