Jantar Mantar, a traditional site of dissent in the country’s Capital, is now off-limits to protestors as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) wants to rescue the area from environmental degradation. Pollution in Delhi has acquired alarming proportions, and rampant misuse of the venue has further precipitated the decline in environmental standards. In four weeks’ time, Jantar Mantar will be scrubbed clean as the bench headed by Justice RS Rathore has ordered for the removal of garbage and all temporary structures, loud speakers and public-address systems from that stretch. Now on, dissent will find articulation in a different venue, at the Ramlila Grounds in Ajmeri Gate. While the nation renews its vows for a Swachh Bharat, residents around Jantar Mantar can aspire to a quieter life in cleaner surroundings.

Source: dna October 07, 2017 02:37 UTC