Haryana CM urges Rajnath Singh to allow construction in buffer zone around Air Force Station in Faridabad's NIT area

Tribune News Service

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Faridabad, December 27

CM Manohar Lal Khattar today requested the Union Defence Minister to consider ending the restriction of 100-metre buffer zone around the Air Force Station in the NIT area here.

The request has come in the wake of the issue taken up by the MLA from NIT Assembly segment, Neeraj Sharma, who claimed that the buffer zone had been posing a hurdle in development of basic amenities for residents of many colonies in the area.

It is revealed that the CM in a letter to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, said the authorities concerned might consider the 100-metre buffer restriction in the area surrounding the Air Force Station so that the living condition of residents of various colonies could be improved.

According to Sharma, the CM made a reference to the DO letter written by him in August last year wherein he had drawn attention of the state government to the hardships faced by residents living in colonies located in and around the buffer zone.

The provision of the 900-metre wide buffer zone around the station had been reduced to 100 metre in 2007. The MLA claimed that though a large number of houses had come up within zone , the local civic authorities had failed to provide basic amenities to residents of densely populated colonies like Saran, Ghazipur, Dabua, Odiya colony and Kapra colony due to restrictions imposed under the Defence Act, 1903.