#Hospital to cough up Rs. 12 crore

Built in open disregard of all laws of the land to which every public authority turned a blind eye, a 450-bed super speciality hospital in Faridabad was on Tuesday directed by the National Green Tribunal to cough up Rs. 11.88 crore as environmental compensation for harming the ecology. Terming it the “biggest fraud” played by M/s QRG Medicare Limited, the project proponent, the NGT directed that it will have to pay the compensation in three weeks to the Haryana Pollution Control Board.

The Chief Secretary of Haryana has been directed to fix the onus on the officials who granted clearance to the project in 2013 even as the project was complete in 2006.

Built over 39261.82 square meters area, the super speciality hospital in the name and title of QRG Central Unit-II is up and running in sector 16 Faridabad on a land originally given to Vivekananda Ashram society in 1978 on a 99 year lease for Harijan Residential School.

“Apparently, this is the biggest fraud played by Vivekanand Ashram Society and QRG Medicare to which all the public authorities have remained a mute spectator. In the whole process, they have ruined the career of the students for which strict action needs to be taken,” the NGT said. It was one Krishan Lal Gera, a resident of the area housing the hospital, who moved NGT stating that the project flouts green norms.