The SHOCKING Truth behind Aravalli Hills! | Dhruv Rathee

Hello friends! Approximately 2 billion years ago, a wall of mountains was built between Rajasthan and Delhi due to the collision of the continental plates. This wall, which starts from Gujarat and goes to the Rajasthani hills of Delhi, is approximately 700 km long.

Today, it is one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. For the past thousands of years, these mountains have done a very important job. To stop the Thar desert from spreading further. If these mountains were not there, many areas of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh would have been buried in the sand sea. The level of groundwater would have been much lower, the water crisis would have been worse. And don't even ask about air pollution.

Without these hills, the sand and dust particles from the desert would have made air pollution worse. This is the Aravalli Mountain Range, friends. And today, this same danger is hovering over the country. The Modi government has come up with a new definition of Aravalli. According to which, 90% of the hills will not be officially Aravalli.

The hills will not be considered as mountains. And because of this, it will be easier for them to cut down the forests, construct, and mine. When people got to know about this, people in Rajasthan and Haryana protested on the streets. People started raising their voices on social media.

The government was pressured. And in return, the government issued a new notification to mislead people. The government said that there will be no mining in Rawalese. But this notification was just a statement. Along with this, many influencers and content creators were given money to defend the government.

Earlier, I received their mail but I didn't sell it.

Now, I received a call have called me to threaten me. This is the exact email I am showing you to show you the content preview. This is the development project of Aravali. Many people have made many videos using the same script. Where they say that the government is not doing this to destroy Aravali but to save them.

The Supreme Court was doing this to save the Aravalis can be saved. Anyway, no one can do major mining with the Aravalis. Let's understand this whole issue in depth in today's video. Before starting the video, if you want to upskill yourself in the field of AI, then on 4th January, this Sunday, I am hosting AI Masterclass on 4th January, this Sunday. It's a 2.5 hour comprehensive class where I personally come live and teach you more than 25 AI tools.

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to save the Arawal Range from mining, Listen carefully, to save it from mining, the Modi government orders to make a uniform definition of Arawal. The Supreme Court believed

that it would be easier to protect the Arawal mountains if they had a uniform definition. This is because the Arawal Range passes through four states. Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi. And in all these states, different definitions have been used. The government was given the task of making a better definition. But the definition made by the Union Environment and Foreign Ministry

would make the mountains disappear instead of saving them. According to the new definition, the mountains will make the mountains disappear instead of saving them. According to the new definition, only those mountains will be called aravali whose height is more than 100 metres. Apart from this, the aravali range will only be considered

when there are more than 2 aravali mountains within 500 metres. If they are more than this, then they will not be considered a part of the aravali range. This looks like a small change but look at the scam. You might think that it's a 100m

height. 100m is a standard height. What's wrong with that? But the point to be noted is where is the mountain height measured from? From 0m, the baseline. The height of mountains is measured from sea level. When we say that Mount Everest is 8800m, we compare it to sea level. But the government says that for Aravali, metres. It is compared to the sea level. But the government says that the height of Aravali will not be measured from the sea level.

But it will be calculated from the surrounding areas. The scam here is that most of the areas around Aravali are already 100 metres above sea level. So if a mountain of Aravali is 190 metres above sea level, then also, according to this new definition,

it cannot be considered as a part of Aravali. It cannot be classified as a mountain. This is the reason why more than 90% of the mountains in Aravali do not meet the criteria of this new definition. And that's why they will not be called Aravali. According to the Forest Survey of India,

out of the 12,081 mountains in Aravali, only 1,048 mountains are 100 meters high. That is only 8.7% mountains. The rest, more than 90%, are not officially mountains. The amazing thing is that on 20th November 2025, when the government gave this definition to the Supreme Court,

the Supreme Court accepted this new definition and asked the Environment Ministry to prepare a plan for sustainable mining. But the good news is that people didn't become fools. From Rajasthan to Delhi, something happened that didn't happen in the last few years. Thousands of people took to the streets to save Arawali.

In Bhurgaon, people protested in front of the houses of the Haryana ministers. In Udaipur, lawyers marched from the court to the electorate. While marching in Jaipur, thousands of people gathered at the Ambedkar Circle. A protest was held in Jodhpur as well. All the protesters said the same thing together. No Aravalli, No Life.

Don't destroy Aravalli, let us breathe. On social media, the hashtag Save Aravalli has been trending for a long time. Thousands of people made reels. Thousands of people started posting pictures of Arawali on their profiles. They started posting statuses on WhatsApp. Because all of them understand, friends,

what will happen if Arawali is destroyed. To understand this impact, it is important to know how the desert spreads. You must have seen that sand dunes in the desert keep shifting from one place to another in the desert. In areas like the desert, strong winds blow, which take the sand with them.

And slowly, they form a layer of sand on the land. If this is not stopped, the land becomes barren. And the desert begins to spread. This process is called desertification. The Avali mountains work like a speed breaker to stop it.

As soon as the sand wind hits the mountains, its speed decreases. And because of the slow speed, the heavy sand in the air falls down. And because of this, the desert can't move forward. And here, the mountain is not doing the job of stopping the sand.

In fact, the forest on the mountain is doing it. These trees trap the fine dust in the air and keep the soil attached to its roots. If these trees and mountains are cut down, then this sand will fly straight and fall in the fertile lands of Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. And slowly, it will make the land there barren.

Climate scientists have warned many times that if Aravalli is destroyed, then in a few decades, Delhi's climate will become a semi-desert climate. And this is not an imaginary thing because to some extent, this is already happening. I'll show you the proof in the video ahead. But before that, let's know who would want to destroy Arawal.

What benefit do they get? And the straight answer to this is money, money and money. Money will be money. Money is money. Money for real estate companies, money for mining companies, money for political parties that take donations from them. The hills of Aravalli pass through the Delhi NCR real estate corridor like Gurgaon and Faridabad. And here the price of land and houses is unbelievably high. The government of Haryana has repeatedly tried to remove some parts of Aravalli from the protection.

And who is benefiting from this? Companies like Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Group. I still don't know. You ask me what happened.

What do I know?

Actually, the uncultivated forests in the village of Aravali, their ownership was with the Gram Panchayat. And they couldn't be bought or sold. But still, Patanjali Group, in the Kot village of Faridabad. Now you will ask, if this land cannot be bought and sold, then how did Patanjali buy this land?

They bought this land through shell companies and brokers, by signing more than 300 Power of Attorney Agreements, which do not require ownership transfer. The Reporters Collective's investigation of 2023 showed that Patan Shell companies are buying land at a low price in Arawli and selling it at a high profit. Many of these companies earned zero or very little. But they gave crores of rupees in advance for the land.

In most of the companies, Baba Ramdev's partner Acharya Balkrishnan had the majority stake. Apart from this, look, in April 2022, the Supreme Court had also ordered to return these lands to the Panchayat. But the Haryana government has not yet implemented this order. The second way to destroy the Arawalis was found by the companies,

Farmhouse Economy. Luxury farmhouses, wedding venues, resorts were built on the protected land. For weddings and parties, the booking was in lakhs of rupees. In December 2023, in a drone survey, in just 4 villages of Faridabad, 6,793 illegal structures were found.

They had surrounded an area of more than 700 acres of Aravalli. The Kant Enclave case is the biggest example of this. This company had made more than 1,600 plots in 425 acres of land. This was the forest area of Aravalli. But despite this, the Haryana government gave the company permission to build a residential complex here. And you won't believe who all bought plots here.

Former Chief Justice of India, former MP, well-known cricketers, a retired officer of the World Bank, army officials, politicians and bureaucrats. All of them had bought plots here. This is an old story. In September 2018, the Supreme Court had ordered to demolish all 30 houses here. And said that the Town and Country Department was involved with the company.

This was the situation when the entire area was under protection. Now think about it, if this protection is removed, what will happen here? The third big threat is mining. The mining of construction materials like silica sand, marble, stones is done. Which goes to the construction market of the entire Delhi NCR. Look at these videos.

These illegal mining people make the entire mountains disappear. Now think about it, if a mountain's height is a little more than 100 metres and they cut the mountains like this and bring it down to 100 metres, then it will not be said. In Arawal, on a large scale, there are reserves of minerals like gold, tungsten, lead, rose-coloured quartz, zinc, copper and rock phosphate. Mining is also done for these minerals. And this mining is being done in both legal and illegal ways.

The Supreme Court has banned mining in the protected areas of Arawal many times. But despite this, mining has been done here. Like, look at this. Like this one. In 2004, the Supreme Court had banned mining in the notified areas of Aravali. But illegal mining was still going on. After that, in 2009, this ban was extended to Faridabad, Gurgaon and Mewat, which is 448 sq. km.

But till then, Aravali was damaged. Between 2011-2017, only in Rajasthan, in the area of Aravali Hills, 4072 cases of illegal mining were registered. And around 100 lakh tonnes of minerals were illegally mined. A report by CAG revealed that the Rajasthan government had given this mining lease.

The directions of the Supreme Court were not followed. And even the Union Environment and Foreign Ministry had given its permission. The mining mafia has a very strong lobby here. And they have very close relations the bureaucrats and politicians. They support the politicians in illegal mining.

In July 2022, in Haryana's New, DSP Surendra Singh published an article about illegal mining. But the mafia is so fearless that they crushed DSP Surendra Singh. You must be thinking that this is a very speculative thing that in the future, Aravali will be destroyed. Aravali will be destroyed in the future. But it's not like that, friends.

All this is already happening. It's been happening for many years. In 1968, the Survey of India recorded only 2,200 mountains of Aravali in Rajasthan. Today, 25% of these mountains

have completely disappeared. In just one district, Alwar, 31 mountains have been destroyed in the last 50 years. Similarly, look at this report, the State of the Haryana Arawali Citizens Report. Due to mining, in Haryana's 7 Arawali districts,

many Arawali have been destroyed. And wherever these mountains were destroyed, what happened there? 12 bridges were opened. From where sand from the Thar Desert came. This is the report of 2009. It revealed that through the 12 gaps in the Aravali region,

the Thar Desert is expanding towards the plains. The areas that were once green, are now about to turn into deserts. From South Haryana to Rajasthan, the production of crops in the entire Arawal region has decreased. 8.2% of the total area of Haryana has started to change into desert. And this land is no longer as fertile as it was before.

Apart from this, I had told you that the connection of Arawal is also due to the air quality of Delhi NCR. The forests of Arawal work like green lungs for Delhi NCR. They increase the oxygen, absorb pollutants and stop dust. The destruction of Avali has made the air pollution situation in Delhi NCR worse. The 12 gaps that I told you about, the sand from the desert enters Delhi NCR through them. Which was not the case years ago, decades ago.

Apart from this, because of the illegal and legal mining at different places, dust and air pollutants are being released. Which again, in Delhi N. Which are acting like pollution once again in Delhi NCR. But it's not just about clean air, but also about water. Because for water, Aravalli is a very important source.

These mountains have natural cracks. The rainwater goes into the ground through these cracks and recharges the groundwater. According to an estimate, one hectare of Aravalli land can recharge 20 lakh litres of water.

But when the mountains break, According to the government, one hectare of Aravalli land can recharge 20 lakh litres of water.

But when the mountains collapse, concrete is laid, water cannot get in, and because of this, the groundwater level also starts to fall. In Aravalli belt, the groundwater level has already fallen by 1000-2000 feet. Many lakes near Delhi, like Badkhal Lake, are completely dry. The same is the case with Damdama Lake in Haryana. Which is considered to be one of the biggest natural lakes in Haryana.

Its size has reduced to one third due to dry deforestation. It is the last surviving natural lake of the Delhi NCR region. But if the situation continues to improve, it will also completely dry up one day. The destruction of Aravalli also affected weather patterns and rain. In 1973, where monsoons lasted for 101 days,

in 2009, they lasted for only 25 days. Similarly, the rainy days have decreased from 60 to 80 days a year and now only 18 to 30 days are left. This is because the jungle atmosphere of Aravali created humidity.

It controlled the speed of thevali created humidity in the atmosphere.

It controlled the speed of the wind which caused the rain. Now you can understand by yourself how bad the situation is. And you don't need to imagine how much worse the situation will get if the remaining mountains of Aravali are also destroyed. So many protests are taking place. What is the government saying here?

On 24th December 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a press release. What is the government saying here? On 24th December 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued a press release. It said that the Ministry has issued directions to the state governments to ban any new mining lease in Aravali. If you look at it from the top,

you'll feel that people's efforts were successful. The government listened to the people. And now, mining is banned in Aravali. On social media, some people are sharing this news that people have won and now Aravalli is safe. But the truth is, friends, that people are being misled. Look at this report by The Wire.

Neither is this ban new nor are these directions new. The government is only following the Supreme Court's order through this press release. In the government's press release, it is written that ICFRE has been asked to make a management plan for sustainable mining. And until this plan is made, mining leases will not be granted. The Supreme Court also gave the same order.

Look at the order of 20th November in which the Supreme Court accepted the 100-metre definition. In the same order, it is written that a management plan for sustainable mining should be made. And the areas should be identified where mining can be done. And where mining should be completely stopped. And until this plan is made, no new mining leases will be given. So the government is presenting this again as if Arawali is safe now, there is no need to protest now, everything is fine.

If the government really wanted to listen to the people, then didn't they change the 100-metre definition? The Arawali Heritage Public Programme, which is fighting to save Arawali, also said that in this press release, it has not been said anywhere that the government is going to change the 100-metre definition and bring a better definition. I think the government is just waiting for the people to cool down. After a year or two, a new plan will be brought for mining. And then new mining leases will be given. To confuse people, Union Environment Minister Bhupinder Yadav is even saying that

90% of the Aravallis will be protected by the new definition. Because if there are two mountains within 500 metres, then the area between them will also be protected. And there will be no mining here. If there is a gap of 500 metres between one mountain and the other, then that land will also be considered as Arawali Range.

After this definition, more than 90% of the area has become a protected area. But the truth is that the government has not yet shown any such data in public in which it has been clearly stated that how many 100-metre high Arawali hills are less than 500 metres away. The public data says the opposite. That in Rajasthan, only 8.7% of the mountains are 100m high. If the government says that more than 90% of the mountains are protected, then it should be shown as evidence.

Otherwise, anyone can say anything in the open. Don't be surprised if we say that we have declared 90% of the mountains as out of the Arawal region. They are not a part of the Arawal region. And we are saying that 90% of the people in our opinion are protected. Influencers and creators are being paid to make videos defending the government on the issue of Aravali. Many of my friends showed me the clear evidence of this.

They received an email or WhatsApp from a marketing agency to remove the old video on Aravali where Aravali was being talked in its favour. And instead, make a new video on how mining will develop in Aravalli. Many creators have shared such emails publicly. Look at this.

This email has come from PR agency.

Let me show you the email. Yes, here it is. So, they say that delete the video of Aravalli hills

and make a new video in which you support that Aravalli hills are being cut.

That is very dangerous. Because yesterday I also got an offer that you have to make a video in favour of the Supreme Court.

You tell us your budget.

The script that was provided to them, it was said that go and tell people that the government's decisions here are actually to save Arawali. And you can see these faces on many screens who have put the same video following this script. One of them says that the government has brought the 100-metre definition to define only, but the hills below 100 metres are also equally protected. But how? It is not said. That the Aravalli hills are above 100 metres,

it does not mean that the rest will be removed and opened for mining. The rest are also equally protected.

But the truth is that 100 metres is a technical benchmark. And it is not given to exclude Aravalli but also to clearly identify her. Whether it's the Supreme Court or the government,

their intentions were already clear.

Do you understand, Daya?

Yes, sir.

This means... This means...

Yes, yes, yes.

It's a simple thing. If the government was really interested in protecting Aravalli, then why did they make this 100-metre definition? The amazing thing is that some Godi Media anchors are now creating an environment for the destruction of Arawalis. Like, listen to India TV's Rajat Sharma. They are blaming Arawali for the air pollution in Delhi.

They are saying that Arawali is surrounded by Delhi from all three sides. That's why air pollution is getting trapped here. The mountains that are doing the job of stopping the pollution, they are being blamed for the pollution. The amazing thing is that Rajat Sharma blamed the government for the air pollution in Delhi till the time there was a common man party government in Delhi.

The people of Delhi are also human beings. They are also human beings. They also pay taxes. What did they do to be forced to breathe in the toxic air? What crime did they commit that the people of Delhi are 10 years younger than them? The answer to this is that Jawaharlal Nehru will have to answer.

First it was the government's fault, now it's the poor mountains. It's worth thinking that when despite legal protection there has already been so much destruction in Aravali, So what will happen after this new definition? That's why it is very important to protest to save the Arawalis.

Save the Arawalis! Save the Demands!

Now the good news here is that because of all these protests, on 29th December, the Supreme Court has imposed a temporary stay on its own decision. Now the court will make a new High Powered Expert Committee, in which there will be domain experts, and these experts will look at the entire report of the Government Committee, where the domain experts will be present. And these experts will look at the Government Committee's report in depth.

And until these experts present their detailed assessment report, there will be no action on the 100-metre new definition. It will depend on the new committee whether this 100-metre definition

will be accepted or not. So it is very important that there is pressure on the Government and the committee so that the 100-metre definition can be permanently rejected. But the unfortunate thing is that this government is not only after Aravalli. It is after many different forests in different areas of the country. In Mumbai, 45,000 mangroves are being cut just to make a coastal road.

45,000 mangrove trees. You know what mangroves do in school, right? Mangroves protect from floods. Their root systems absorb wave energy. Stabilize the soil. Improve the quality of water.

Yet, to make roads, so many trees will be cut. And when floods come, will anyone remember the actual reason? Similarly, at the behest of Adani Group, the land of the jungle was given to him

where the trees were to be planted. This land was included in the Green Credit Programme, which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December 2023. This entire government is by the corporates, for the corporates, of the corporates. All the decisions taken by the government are taken after looking at Adani Ambani. The root cause behind all this is the same Chanda Dhanda model which I talked about in the video on electoral bonds.

The government asks for chanda from the corporate and gives them business in return. Earlier this work was done through electoral bonds. But since the Supreme Court has terminated electoral bonds, this work has been done through trusts for the past year. Look at this article. 4,276 crores of contributions were given to different political parties through the electoral trust. And 83.6% of this money went to only one political party.

BJP. Other parties also get money from the incorporates. But the money that is being given to BJP, the money of other parties is negligible in front of it. That's why if we want to save the country, save the forests of the country, save the jungles of the country,

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