India, Dec. 8 -- Congress MP and former Union minister Ajay Maken on Monday raised the issue of dilution of Aravalli definition during the Zero Hour in the ongoing Parliament's Winter Session on Monday.

He urged the immediate withdrawal of the criterion proposed to prevent North India from becoming a 'dust bowl.'

The Supreme Court on November 20 accepted a uniform, elevation-based definition of the Aravalli Hills given by a Centre-appointed expert committee.

HT had reported on October 16 that a high-level committee headed by the Union environment secretary has submitted its report to the court, proposing that any slope with a height of more than 100 metres, measured from the top, will qualify as Aravalli hills.

"The Aravalli mountain ...