Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari questioned whether the Union government was aware of challenges arising in peri-urban areas like Kharar, including ecological imbalance, biodiversity loss, water table depletion and rising pollution levels
Local resident Jaymala Dhankikar on August 7 wrote an email to the MoEFCC stating that reserve forest area have suffered immense environmental damage over the past 20 years due to indiscriminate tree cutting and hilltop flattening for various residential and commercial projects