New Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village to continue.
The village complex, consisting of more than a thousand super-deluxe flats, is coming up on the Yamuna River bed.
Environmentalists have been opposing the construction of the village, as it is allegedly coming up on a flood plain.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court, while allowing the ongoing construction, had also ordered the formation of a panel headed by noted environmental expert R K Pachauri to keep a tab on ecological impact of the construction.
The government came to the apex court opposing the formation of the Pachauri panel, as it wanted no strings attached to the construction. The apex court, while admitting the two sets of lawsuits last December, had allowed the construction to continue.
The Government counsel had argued that the project was ecologically sound and said it was adjacent to the Akshardham temple, whose construction was cleared by the environment and forests ministry considering that it was not on the riverbed.