India, July 21 -- New Delhi

The Delhi government may face a green hurdle in its bid to develop a 20-kilometre elevated corridor along the Munak Canal from Bawana to Inderlok, as part of the canal revamp project, officials aware of the development said. Officials of the Public Works Department (PWD) said that Haryana's irrigation and flood control department, which oversees the entire length of the canal in Delhi and is also the landowning agency, has apprised that the land for the proposed corridor is a "protected forest" and necessitates additional clearances and approvals for infrastructure work.

According to a PWD report on the project dated July 10, there are more than 2,000 trees along the canal.

"The Irrigation and Flood Control ...