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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it is the misfortune of the public that a 100-bed hospital in the city’s Najafgarh area was not completed due to the lax attitude of the Delhi government in the process of forest clearance, even as the Center wrote to it.
A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh granted time to the Delhi government to file its reply on the petition and indicated the shortest possible time within which necessary permission/sanction under the law would be granted by the Center and the matter would be taken up for 8 years. Posted for hearing on Nov.
The bench was hearing a PIL filed by advocate Rajesh Kaushik, seeking a direction to both the governments to complete the establishment of the hospital at the site of the Rural Health Training Center at Najafgarh in southwest Delhi.
Do something so that the construction is complete. You can also say that no, but don’t sit tight. You decide according to the law, the bench said.
It is the misfortune of the general public that the 100 bedded hospital could not be completed due to the slowness of the Delhi government. The Government of India is writing letter by letter and there is no response from the Delhi Government. The bench said no counter has been filed (by the Delhi government).
Advocate Anurag Ahluwalia, appearing for the Centre, informed the court that the project was 80% complete and is awaiting clearance from the Delhi government’s forest department since December 2018 as the site requires clearance for transplantation of trees.
The petition, filed through advocate Sameer Chandra, states that the structure of the building is complete, and it is extremely necessary for the public that the hospital starts running before the onset of the third wave of COVID-19.
The petition said that there is no good hospital in the area and setting up of this 100-bed facility will meet the needs of 1.5 million people spread over 73 villages within a 10-km radius.
The next hearing of the case will be on November 8.
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