Chandigarh, April 7 -- Rejecting the proposal of the Haryana government to delineate an area of 1,000 metres around the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary on the Haryana side as an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ), the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has issued a draft notification, demarcating an area of 1 km up to 2.035 km around the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary on the Haryana side as an ESZ.

The ministry has sought objections from stakeholders within sixty days of the notification, which was issued on March 22.

In January 2017, the Chandigarh administration had demarcated an area of 1 km up to 2.75 km from the boundary of the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary as ESZ.

The Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, spread over 25.98 square km (...