Saving Aravallis from death by definition, all eyes on Jan 21
The Supreme Court’s December 29, 2025, decision was welcomed as a major relief for those working to protect the Aravallis—India’s oldest mountain range.
The Supreme Court’s December 29, 2025, decision was welcomed as a major relief for those working to protect the Aravallis—India’s oldest mountain range.
The chief minister had directed officials to carry out a joint campaign by joint teams of all the concerned departments for curbing and preventing bid of illegal mining or other prohibited and harmful activities along the entire mountain range in the state.
The Congress leader took exception to granting of new leases for mines in Rajasthan by the Sharma-led BJP government in November last month, terming it violation of the Supreme Court directives.
On World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kickstart the ‘Aravalli Green Wall’ campaign with a tree plantation drive at Delhi’s Bhagwan Mahavir Vanasthali Park in the Ridge area on Thursday morning.
The Aravalli mountain Range, extending for about 670 kms from Delhi to Ahmedabad, with most of its area in Rajasthan and Haryana, is one of the oldest geological formations in the world. Yet it has taken only a few decades to damage it extensively, the single factor most responsible being indiscriminate mining and quarrying.
