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Is Gurugram

sitting on

time bomb?

A major tragedy is awaiting in Gurugram as high-powered tension electricity wires are crossing over
petrol pumps, reports pawan kumar bansal
urugram, a millennium city sures as how first rules were bent for explosives department should have
and hub of big corporate granting permission for change of land cancelled the permission granted
houses is actually sitting on use for setting up four petrol pumps for running the petrol pumps. Well,
time bomb. Forget the de- on Southern Periphery road popu- Director General explosives Faridabad
G pleting groundwater due larly known as Golf Course Extension is competent authority for this purpose.
to illegal dewatering of groundwater by road. Then no objection certificate was At a high level meeting chaired by
installing bore wells, construction haz- issued by the district administration for Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal,
ard, unplanned disposal of waste and setting up the petrol pumps. Not only two years ago, it was decided to start the
felling of trees, there is a major tragedy the state government agencies but the proceedings for the cancellation of the
awaiting as high power tension wires explosives department of the central licenses of the petrol pumps and also
of electricity department are crossing government also ignored the fact that for taking action againts the officers
above the four petrol pumps situated electricity wires are crossing over the who had given permission for change
in the city, thus posing serious threat to petrol pumps. of land use and no objection certificate
lives of its inhabitants. The permission was granted dur- however, no action has been taken till
The petrol pumps have been in ing the tenure of Bhupinder Singh date courtesy clout of the owners of
existence for past eight years without Hooda regime when he was the chief the petrol pumps who are believed to
any check by the authorities concerned minister. What is shocking that the be close to a former chief minister of
of the Haryana government and the officers concerned are still ignoring Haryana.
Fire Department of Haryana Govern- the threat to lives of people. As per the A complaint was made to CM Lal
ment and Explosives Department of procedure, Director town and country against the four petrol pumps namely
Central Government. Any time during planning Haryana was supposed to Renuka, Raminder Sindhu, Shalini
the summer months of June and July, cancel the change of land use permis- Kampani and Navyug Fuels in sector
these poor quality electricity wires sion granted for running petrol pumps — 62 and 65, along Golf Course Exten-
with multiple joints could spark result- as high powered tension wires of elec- sion road in March, 2016. Chief Minister
ing into major blast. Moreover, gas pipe- tricity are crossing over them. Deputy then asked for immediate inspection
lines also exist in this area. commissioner Gurugram should have of these four petrol pumps at fairly
Official documents in possession of cancelled the no objection certificate senior level in the Directorate of Town
Tehelka have revealed shocking disclo- granted for running petrol pumps and Planning and factual position. Fol-

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