5 things you need to know about Art of Living cultural festival

A structure under construction for which the bank has been levelled. The three-day Art of Living event is scheduled for March 11-13. Construction is underway with tents, hutments, barricades and indiscriminate use of malba in over 1,000 acres of the Yamuna floodplains in East Delhi. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

Updated on: Mar 04, 2016 11:31 AM IST

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A structure under construction for which the bank has been levelled. The three-day Art of Living event is scheduled for March 11-13. Construction is underway with tents, hutments, barricades and indiscriminate use of malba in over 1,000 acres of the Yamuna floodplains in East Delhi. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Just as one takes the DND Flyway towards Noida or Mayur Vihar from Ashram or Sarai Kale Khan, the colossal construction work stands out on the left. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Passages being made along the banks by levelling and using debris. A plea by Yamuna activist Manoj Misra challenging the event in the National Green Tribunal stated how “illegal and unauthorised dumping & construction in the active flood plains of river Yamuna in the NCR of Delhi is taking place over some 25 hectares upstream of DND flyway”. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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A bridge being constructed for visitors across the Yamuna. The NGT in a detailed judgment last year expressly prohibited all construction activity on the floodplains as that could pose a grave danger to the river ecology. The tribunal had asked its principal committee to identify structures on the floodplains that needed to be demolished. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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A festival hoarding on the bank of the Yamuna.The Art Of Living foundation, on its part, has said that they have started work “only upon the grant of permission from the authorities/DDA” and are using eco-friendly material like wood, mud, cloth for the constructions. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)