Report of the Study Group
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REPORT OF THE STUDY GROUP ON ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING TOURISM, HERITAGE, POLLUTION & DISASTER MANAGEMENT CONTENTS (i) Letter to Shri. Ashok Jha, Member Secretary, NCRPB (ii) Members of Environment Group (iii) Members of Environment Sub-Group (iv) Members of Heritage and Tourism Sub-Group (v) Members of Disaster Management Sub-Group (vi) List of tables (vii) List of Figures Page 0.0 Executive Summary 1 1.0 Introduction 7 2.0 Land 8 2.0.1 Land Quality 8 2.1 Soil 9 2.1.1 Major Soil Classification of NCR 10 2.1.2 District-wise distribution of Soil types in NCR 12 2.2 Wasteland 15 2.3 Barren Lands 16 2.4 Mineral Resources 16 2.5 Land Suitability Analysis 17 3.0 Water 18 3.1 Surface Water 18 3.1.1 Water Quality 23 3.1.2 Water Pollution 24 3.1.3 Pollution from Fertilisers 26 3.1.4 Organic Pollution Hazard 28 3.1.5 Pollution from Trade Effluents 29 3.2 Ground Water 29 3.2.1 Salinity and Major Ions 32 3.2.2 Nature of Acquifers 33 3.2.3 Water Quality 33 3.2.4 Water Balance and Availability 34 3.2.5 Analysis of Consumption Pattern and Ground Water Development 34 3.2.6 Ground Water pollution 34 3.2.7 Conclusion 36 4.0 Air 37 4.0.1 Air Pollution 37 4.0.2 Vehicular Pollution 38 4.0.3 Emission from Thermal Power Plants 38 4.0.4 Air Pollution and its impact on Human Health 39 4.0.5 Impact on Health 39 4.0.6 Air Pollution due to Energy Consumption 39 4.0.7 Energy and Pollution 42 4.0.8 Pollution Load by Towns 43 5.0 Heritage and Tourism 46 5.1 Heritage – NCR 46 5.1.1 Identification of Heritage Sites 46 5.1.2 Policy for Protection of Heritage Sites 47 5.2 Heritage – Delhi NCT 50 5.3 Tourism 68 5.4 Conclusion 71 6.0 Natural Heritage 72 6.1 Bio Diversity of NCR 72 6.2 Conclusion 80 6.3 Strategy for Management of Bio Diversity of the NCR 82 6.4 Restricted Activities in the Specified Area of Aravalli Range 82 7.0 Disaster Management for NCR 84 7.1 Special Geographical / Geo-tech-tonic Features in NCR 85 7.2 History of hazards noted in the Past 88 7.3 Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of the Region due to Natural Hazards 89 7.4 Guidelines for Disaster Resistant Construction 93 7.5 Micro-Zonation with respect to Earthquakes and Floods 93 7.6 Land Use Planning 94 7.7 Suggested Actions 95 8.0 Environmentally Sensitive / Fragile Areas Needing Protection 97 9.0 Area Needing Care while Planning Activities / Land Uses 98 9.1 Planning for Environmentally Relevant Land Uses Including Sites for Industries and Other Developmental Projects 98 9.2 Environmental Standards 98 10.0 Conclusion 100 LIST OF TABLES Page 1. District-wise Productivity (Agricultural) 9 2. District-wise Cropping Intensity 9 3. Soil Quality in NCR 15 4. State-wise Landuse 15 5. City-wise Estimated Pollution Loads 20 6. The Water Quality of the Hindon River 22 7. Water Quality Status for Ganga and its tributaries falling in NCR Region 23 8. Indicators of Organic Pollution for River Ganga and its Tributaries in 1998 23 9. Bacteriological Parameters for river Ganga and its tributaries in 1998 24 10. Physical Parameters for river Ganga and its tributaries in 1998 25 11. Mineral Constituents for river Ganga and its tributaries in 1998 25 12. Consumption of Fertilisers 27 13. Percentage of various Fertilisers used 27 14. Rural BOD Load Intensity 27 15. Depth of Ground Water below Ground Level & its Hydro-geological Conditions in NCR 31 16. Ambient Air Quality 37 17. Pollution Load (in ‘000 tonnes / day) in NCR Towns 43 18. Number of protected monuments in NCR 45 19. Number of Monuments Listed by INTACH in NCR 45 20. Heritage Monuments / Sites in NCR 47 21. List of Heritage Buildings in the area under jurisdiction of the MCD 49 22. Building Listed under ASI in MCD Area 62 23. Proposed List of Monuments / Sites by INTACH 64 24. List of Conservation Areas 66 25. Tourist Interest Sites in various Sub-Regions of NCR 68 26. Scenic Sites in NCR 69 27. Earthquakes in NCR with more than 5.0 magnitude on Richter Scale 87 28. Frequency of severe Floods in NCR district of UP 87 29. Area affected under Earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 90 LIST OF FIGURES 1. NCR – Soil Distribution 11 2. NCR Landuse 16 3. Drainage Pattern 21 4. Water Polluting Industries in Urban Areas 30 5. Ground Water (Hydro – Chemical Conditions) 35 6. Environmentally Sensitive Areas 81 7. Seismo-tectonic Map of NCR 86 8. Flood Prone Area of Rivers / Tributaries and Drains in NCR 90 Members of Environment Group 1. Prof. A. K. Maitra Chairman Director, School of Planning and Architecture 2. Member Secretary Member CPCB 3. Shri. A. S. Arya Member Professor Emeritus 4. Member Secretary Member INTACH 5. Shri. AGK Menon Member Director, TVB School 6. Ms. Sunita Narain Member Director, CSE 7. Member Secretary Member DPCC 8. Director Member M/O Tourism, GOI 9. Shri. T. N. Gupta Member Director, BMTPC 10. Chief Town Planner (NCR) Member TCP Department, Rajasthan 11. Chief Town Planner (NCR) Member TCP Department, Haryana 12. Chief Town Planner (NCR) Member TCP Department, Ghaziabad 13. Shri. Rajeev Malhotra Convenor Joint Director, NCRPB 14. Shri. Suresh K. Rohilla Co-convenor Assistant Director, NCRPB Members of Environment Sub - Group 1. Prof. A. K. Maitra Chairman Director, School of Planning and Architecture 2. Shri. Raghu Babu Member CPCB 3. Shri. B. K. Jain Member Director (Planning), DDA 4. Smt. Savita Bhandari Member Director (Landscape), DDA 5. Smt. Sanjukta Bhaduri Member Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Planning, SPA 6. Smt. Meenakshi Dhote Member Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Planning, SPA 7. Shri Anand kumar Member CPCB 8. Shri. Ajay Raghav Member CPCB 9. Shri. Sidharath Yadav Member CPCB 10. Ms. Meenakshi Singh Member Project Associate, ENVIS Centre on Human Settlements 11. Shri. Rajeev Malhotra Convenor Joint Director, NCRPB 12. Shri. Suresh K. Rohilla Co-convenor Assistant Director, NCRPB Members of Heritage and Tourism Sub - Group 1. Shri. AGK Menon Chairman Director, TVB School 2. Shri. Vinod Kumar Member Director (Planning), Ministry of Tourism 3. Shri. Manu Bhatnagar Member Advisor, NHD 4. Dr. A. K. Sinha Member Superintendent Archeologist, ASI, Delhi Circle 5. Shri Ratish Nanda Member Consultant, Heritage and Conservation 6. Shri. B. K. Jain Member Director (Planning), MPPR – I, DDA 7. Shri. R. C. Aggrawal Member Chief Co-ordinator Planner (NCR), Haryana 8. Shri. S. K. Zaman Member Chief Co-ordinator Planner (NCR), Ghaziabad 9. Shri U. K. Srivastava Member Chief Co-ordinator Planner (NCR), Rajasthan 10. Shri. Rajeev Malhotra Convenor Joint Director, NCRPB 11. Shri. Suresh K. Rohilla Co-convenor Assistant Director, NCRPB Members of Disaster Management Sub - Group 1. Shri. T. N. Gupta Chairman Executive Director, BMTPC 2. Prof. A. S. Arya Member Professor Emeritus 3. Chief Town Planner (NCR) Member TCP Department, Rajasthan 4. Chief Town Planner (NCR) Member TCP Department, Haryana 5. Chief Town Planner (NCR) Member TCP Department, Ghaziabad 6. Shri. S. C. Gupta Co-opted Member Former Additional Commissioner (Planning), DDA 7. Shri. Durgesh Rai Co-opted Member Department of Earthquake Engineering, Roorkee 8. Shri. S. Mukherjee Co-opted Member School of Environment Sciences, JNU, ND 9. Shri. J. K. Prasad Co-opted Member Deputy Chief, BMTPC 10. Shri. Rajeev Malhotra Convenor Joint Director, NCRPB 11. Shri. Suresh K. Rohilla Co-convenor Assistant Director, NCRPB 1 0.0 Executive Summary BROAD ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS The concern of NCR Plan – 2021 has been expressed as a multi-dimensional exercise. And it has been realised that the environment plays a crucial role in establishing paradigm of future development. Environmental concern has been viewed holistically and concerns of both natural as well as built environment, which not only need to be conserved but protected from various forms of natural hazards, has also been taken into account. The Study Group, which was sub divided into three sub- groups working independently, has come up with a coherent and consistent set of recommendations, which should be given adequate weightage at the time of formulating NCR Plan – 2021. The recommendations are as follows 1. The NCR Plan must achieve rational landuse pattern in order to conserve the vital natural endowments and achieve an Environmentally Sustainable Development Pattern. 2. Land is the most crucial and critical environment resource. One of the major objective of NCR Plan should be to protect and conserve good agriculture land. The detail data on soil for all districts of NCR are available with NBSSLUP, which should be co-related to the land holdings to determine land, which must be kept under agriculture. 3. It appears that there is substantial surplus capacity in the existing urban areas, other than Delhi, to accommodate greater number of population. This may reduce the need for needless conversion of good agriculture land to urban uses. This estimation of surplus potential capacity should be one of the major paradigms of NCR Planning. 4. The analysis of both surface and ground water resources indicate that sufficient water is available, provided it is carefully conserved and managed. The crucial factor is pollution abatement measures. Therefore, landuse allocation has to be carefully carried out. 5. The data on air quality except for NCT Delhi is poor. One time data collected by NEERI at several stations is unreliable. Estimation of pollutants based on mass emission factors, is the alternate indicator of pollution load, but cannot be accepted as measure of air pollution.