NCR's Environmental Regulations: Burdensome or Beneficial?

Being part of the NCR, they face stringent environmental regulations, Grap restrictions, ban on second-hand vehicles, control on construction activities, and stricter standards for industries. Farmers are also under additional pressure of stubble management. It is natural to question why the burden of restrictions should be borne when the expected benefits are not being realised. But the future of a region is not decided by the present inconveniences alone. The government has probably retained the existing boundaries of the NCR with this broad thinking. Haryana's 25,327 sq km area falls in the Ad NCR region. It is 46 per cent of the entire NCR. In the NCR region of Uttar Pradesh, after Noida, Greater Noida, the metro has reached Sahibabad but only Gurugram and Faridabad districts of Haryana are not fully covered. The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut rail project from Delhi to Karnal is pending since 2020. Presently, the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor is on priority. The rapid rail projects from Meerut to Ghaziabad are now operational in parts of Haryana.