agra as many as 14 highrise buildings and other constructions in the city were built by encroaching upon yamuna floodplains states a report submitted by national green tribunalappointed expert team the report submitted on tuesday substantiates the claims made by petitioner d k joshi that several real estate projects in the city were built on the floodplains by encroaching upon the ecosensitive zone joshi passed away in november 2016 and the case is being pursued by his nominees according to the report 28 establishments along the river were inspected and 14 of them were found to be encroaching upon the ecosensitive zone several wellknown residential projects were also found to be built by encroaching upon the riverbed in the range of around 2026 metres the expert team found that the encroachers had dumped earth in the area to elevate the ground the tribunal would hear the case on march 9 after going through the report petitioners counsel rahul chaudhary said we will raise objection in the tribunal over clean chit given to some projects that were affected in the 2010 floods based on an order issued by the ngt in january a precise study of yamuna floodplains was carried out by a team from national institute of hydrology roorkee along with the officials of central water commission state pollution control board agra jal nigam agra development authority and up irrigation department the study included the demarcation of floodplains based on satellite images of inundation as on 27 september 2010