New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Terming the Centre's statement that it will issue a ban on the grant of new mining leases in the Aravallis "misleading", Congress leader Pawan Khera on Thursday said there is no legal demarcation and no single notified boundary for the "Aravalli landscape".

According to a Centre's statement, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has directed states to impose a complete ban on granting new mining leases across the entire Aravalli range, stretching from Delhi to Gujarat.

"Yesterday's notification of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change claims that it has issued directions to the states for a 'complete ban on the grant of any new mining leases in the Aravallis'. It is also cla...