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Jehangirpuri - Colony soon over dry water body [1]

NEW DELHI

A controversy is likely to break out in Jahangirpuri area of the city after Delhi government gave its nod to convert one of the largest water bodies in the city for building residential colonies. The government has identified the land as "not fit to be restored for water purpose', a move that doesn't gel with the "Green Delhi' plans of Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government.

Publication Date: 
04/08/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
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Wetlands [3], Land Use [4], Water Resources [5], Housing Construction [6], Delhi [7]
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