India, Feb. 19 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has apprised the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that a high-powered committee under the Ghaziabad district magistrate (DM) has been set up to formulate a rehabilitation scheme for occupants who were served eviction notices for alleged encroachment on the park land in Rajendra Nagar industrial area colony in Sahibabad.

The tribunal was hearing a petition filed by city-based environmentalist Sushil Raghav in 2023, contending removal of encroachment and preservation of the park earmarked at the colony near GT Road in Sahibabad.

During the hearing, on February 17, the UP counsels apprised the tribunal that some of the 172 illegal occupants/houses, built on the park, moved the Allahabad High Cour...