SC Takes Suo Motu Cognisance of Aravalli Mining; CJI Suryakant to Hear Case

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In this Special Report, the Supreme Court takes suo motu cognizance of the Aravalli mining issue, with a vacation bench led by Chief Justice of India Suryakant slated to hear the matter. Union Environment Minister Bhupinder Yadav, in an exclusive interview with India Today's Marya Shakil, defends the Centre's stance, asserting that 'mining will be allowed in 2% of the Aravallis' and that the 1.47 lakh sq km figure covers 34 districts, not just the hill range. The Minister dismisses concerns about the 100-metre definition excluding protected areas, stating, 'First, you must collect your facts, Maria ji,' while citing Forest Survey of India data.

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00:00Shifting focus now to another big story.

00:02Fight to save the Aravlis now reaches the Apex Court, that is the Supreme Court.

00:07The top court has in fact taken sumo to cognizance of the issue and is slated to hear the matter tomorrow itself.

00:13And the three-judge vacation bench of Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant,

00:17Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Augustine George Massey is likely to hear this matter in the court.

00:23Now the top court on November 20th, remember, had accepted a uniform definition of the Aravli Hills and Rangers

00:29and banned the grant of fresh mining leases in the areas spanning Delhi, Ariana, Rajasthan and Gujarat

00:36until expert reports were submitted.

00:39Now the centre backed a Aravli definition and asserted that over 90% areas are protected from mining

00:45and that there is no imminent threat to the Aravli's ecology.

00:49Now, let's in fact listen in to what the Union Environment Minister, Bupen Riyadhav,

00:55told India Today on this very controversy.

00:59Mining will be allowed in 2% of the Aravli's 1.47 lakh square kilometre area.

01:09This is saying that 1.47 lakh square kilometre area is a mass of 34 districts, not the actual hill range.

01:19It's so much.

01:20It's so much.

01:21There are 4 states in the 4 states.

01:23Yes.

01:24And the 4 states are 36 districts.

01:26There are no one district in this area, the talks.

01:30The rest is full.

01:32And in Delhi there is no mining allow in Delhi.

01:36There are no mining allow in Delhi.

01:39There are no mining allow in Delhi.

01:41There are no mining allow in Delhi.

01:42So, Aravali is just four kings in Saiti Ziloh. Where are you getting data from now?

01:50No sir, the Forest Survey of India identifies that Aravali is 40,483 km2 using the 3 degree slow formula.

02:03And the warning is that the 100 meter definition would exclude over 99% of identified Aravali hills.

02:12The FSI, you also have some so-called, that means that it's all.

02:18The tweet of FSI has denied it.

02:21That in the name of the FSI, the data that has been given in the name of the name of the FSI,

02:27which you also have given in India Today, FSI has denied it.

02:32First of all, correct your facts, Mariya Ji.

02:34So, you have to say that FSI has denied it?

02:36No, FSI has denied it.

02:38Okay.

02:39Do you understand it?

SC Takes Suo Motu Cognisance of Aravalli Mining; CJI Suryakant to Hear Case

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