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?
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