out that the aravalis draw protection from several supreme court orders the centres aravali notification of 1992 as well as areas marked as natural conservation zonesvarious supreme court orders and directions of the national green tribunal will still be applicable for instance the areas that are plpa as well as deemed forest will remain forest however the issue is that the haryana government hasnt yet completed identification of forest what constitutes it this may lead to confusion said advocate rahul choudharythe amendment will also drastically reduce the role of the forest department in the management of the aravalis if plpa is lifted we will have no control over the area said a senior forest official adding no views were sought from the department before the amendment was proposedenvironmentalists alleged this step was taken to win the favour of the real estate lobby before the elections it is probably the first time any government has tried to amend a central law without seeking approval from the supreme court which for many years has been raising concern about degradation of the aravalis said vivek kamboj an environmentalistenvironmentalists also pointed out that an increase in real estate activity on plpa area is likely to have an adverse impact on the groundwater table and on wildlife species in the aravalis there is also the other big concern of desertification speeding in delhincr it seems policy makers are only favouring interests of real estate barons who will sell expensive flats to unsuspecting citizens in a concrete aravali there is no place for wildlife and green cover said chetan agarwal an environmental analystthe state government has been trying to amend the plpa for the last two years in 2017 chief minister manohar lal khattar while addressing a seminar at a private university in gurgaon spoke of the need to amend plpa he reasoned that change cannot be avoided since areas with urban structures in the aravalis should not fall under plpa a committee was set up in 2017 under the chief secretary to examine if plpa areas are foreststhe plpa enacted in 1900 was the earliest legal protection to the aravalis given by the british