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THe Uttarakhand heights margaret court on midweek directed the say authorities to file a response to an urgency application pointing out a serious threat to the fragile ecology of the foothills between Dehradun and Mussoorie due to unchecked illegal constructions.Reenu Paul, a Dehradun resident and former National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, faculty member, filed the application in a 2021 public interest litigation (PIL).Advocate Abhijay Negi, who appeared for Paul before a bench of Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Subhash Upadhyay, called the stretch where the Dehradun plains meet the rising Mussoorie hills a critical ecological and conservation zone.Negi said rampant building activity continues in the area despite regulations against it. He added the state government amended building by laws in 2015 to introduce Clause 4.4 to regulate construction in fragile hill belts, but its implementation on the ground remains “virtually non-existent”.He said the petitioner has placed recent evidence before the court to show that construction activity has intensified during the period when the PIL remained pending.Negi said the respondents have filed their replies, and a rejoinder has also been submitted, but the matter had not been listed for nearly two years. “The urgency application details how the situation has gone from bad to worse in the foothill area during this period,” he said.The high court noted the submissions and directed the state government to file its reply to the urgency application within three weeks.The petition said the state government notified nine areas within these foothills as ecologically sensitive through a government order dated February 5, 2019. It added that the foothill area acts as a crucial ecological buffer and carbon sink for the Doon Valley. The plea said the region has increasingly become a hotspot for unauthorised constructions due to a lack of enforcement.The original PIL cited amendments to the Uttarakhand Building Construction and Development Bylaws, 2011, and said it disallowed building in areas where landslide intensity is high or where the natural slope exceeds 30 degrees. It added that unchecked constructions continued in the ecologically sensitive stretch despite these restrictions.

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