The DMRC plans to license space for telecom towers at 20 locations, including 15 metro stations and five train depots: Vasant Vihar, Jamia Millia Islamia, Okhla Vihar, Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Kalkaji Mandir, Dashrath Puri and the Kalindi Kunj train depot, among others.
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NOIDA: Months after the camera loot from a Noida-based wildlife photographer Dhanauri wetlands, a bird enthusiast has been targeted for the second time in the district.
An SUV (Fortuner) belonging to a senior executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland who is also a bird enthusiast was stolen from outside gate number 1 of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary (OBS) early Sunday.
Bird watcher Padmanav Kundu had arrived at the sanctuary early around 7:30 am and had parked the car outside the gate on the main road after fully informing the OBS staff.
Kundu, who is a senior executive of the Royal Bank Scotland and does bird photography told TOI that he reached gate number 1 of the sanctuary and asked the staff if he could park on the stretch of the main road outside gate number 1.
Okhla Bird Sanctuary
NOIDA: Despite protests from birders, the forest department has said that the proposed campsite in Okhla Bird Sanctuary will be ready for visitors in just two months.
“We will go ahead with the plan. We have not decided on the charges yet. But the idea is to promote eco-tourism. The campsite is being developed as an Uttar Pradesh Forest Corporation initiative. Booking process and other details are being worked on,” said PK Srivastava, the district forest officer, Gautam Budh Nagar.
The campsite will be able to accommodate 10 visitors at one time.
The bird park got a facelift recently and now, it has bird watching gazebos, a canteen, a boardroom and an office area.
In a meeting with Rajendra Kumar Tiwari, Chief Secretary, UP and Additional Chief Secretary, Industry, Arvind Kumar real estate developers put up various suggestions to complete construction and give delivery of maximum housing units to allottees.
The campsite is part of an ongoing beautification project at the park
NOIDA: Environmentalists and birders have raised an alarm over the construction of a structure in the middle of the forest area of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary.
Though construction activity is banned in the sanctuary that enjoys the status of a protected wildlife zone, the forest department has said it’s “just a campsite” and will be built anyway.
Birders have, however, urged that the structure be at least shifted to the buffer zone next to the crematorium area at the northern end of the sanctuary aligned with the DND flyway so that the avian habitat is not impacted by human activity. Work at the site started sometime last week.