'Lutyens' Delhi drawing excessive groundwater'
21 April 2018 4:44 AM IST
NEW DELHI: A recent research by urban experts and environmentalists have found out that Lutyens' Delhi is a 'parasite' urban space, as the bungalow zone which housed the rich and the influential draws excessive amounts of water and dumps its waste outside the prime land.
"I know the garbage figure and the pollution figure (for Delhi). The livability index of the city is going down. The richer the city, the less livable it is in terms of health indicators, and livability, which you would define as a quality of life in a city," said Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE.
She also claimed that the clean and green space of the Lutyens' Delhi, comparable to some of the best urban zones in the western world, has also insulated its residents from realising the "urban mess" that the city of Delhi or any other part if India is in.
"So, if one talks of Lutyens' Delhi... one part of Delhi which is the complete parasite, living off on every other part of the city. It has a huge amount of land yet it doesn't deal with its waste, which goes to Okhla (landfill site). It draws more water per capita than any other part of the city," she alleged.
"And, it is so green, so clean, no one who is living here believes that Delhi or any other part of India is in the urban mess, that we are in," she said, adding that it is a part of the "divide that we seeing."
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