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Badshahpur drain

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) in a September 3, 2020 report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said a concept plan was prepared to offset groundwater recharge affected due to concretisation of the Badshahpur drain.

The concept plan proposed to:

* Arrest the run-off from areas beyond the Gurugram-Manesar Urban Complex Development Plan area by a multi-pronged approach creating check dams in hill sections and to channelise water into pond areas

* Divert runoff from Badshahpur drain by constructing a drain along the southern peripheral road (SPR) thr...