though the DDA's alacrity in removing slum dwellers has raised eyebrows. Small groups of labourers had settled down in some parts years ago, when the ridge was a source of construction material. They worked in the quarries, but after these were shut down, they started working in the homes nearby.

NGO recommendations on planned DMRC-link through Delhi Ridge

The proposed Metro track emerges from the underground link near the Delhi Water Treatment Plant on the Ridge. From here it proceeds over ground on an increasing elevation towards the proposed Qutub Station, and from then on to the Chattarpur Station at Andheria Morh.

There is a distinct possibility that the Metro may attract commercial interests and activities in the Ridge. The new Master Plan of Delhi (MPD 2021) proposes that the Metroof malba which had been dumped on the Central Ridge. The DDA has been lobbying to let the malba remain there since it claimed it was several thousand truckloads. The DDA also claimed that though the portion of the Ridge is under its control, the Authority was not responsible for its dumping.

Prior to this, the Delhi HC had pulled up the DDA for constructing an illegal road near Inderpuri. The mud road - 2-km long and 15 to 20' wide with a stone embankment had been constructed by the DDA but the agency did not inform the RMB about it.

Pointing to the area where the south central Ridge is surrounded clock-wise by Jawaharlal Nehru University, Nelson Mandela Marg, Mehrauli Mahipalpur Road, National Highway-8 and Palam Road besides the