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AYODHYA: The Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) rejected the layout plan for the Ayodhya mosque as mandatory no-objection certificates hadn’t been issued by various govt departments, a reply to an RTI query revealed, reports .Supreme Court, in its Ayodhya verdict on Nov 9, 2019, had mandated allocation of five acres of land to Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for construction of a mosque and other facilities.On Aug 3, 2020, then Ayodhya DM Anuj Kumar Jha transferred five acres of land in Dhannipur village near Ayodhya, to Sunni Central Waqf Board. The mosque trust applied for plan approval on June 23, 2021. Since then, there has been no update on approval. Not received any objection to NOC application: Mosque secretary In its reply to the RTI application filed by local journalist Om Prakash Singh dated Sept 16, 2025, the ADA admitted that the masjid trust had paid Rs 4 lakh as application and scrutiny fees. As per information provided by ADA, NOCs were sought from PWD, pollution control, civil aviation, irrigation and revenue departments, and from the municipal corporation, district magistrate and fire service.Mosque trust secretary Athar Husain said, “The Supreme Court has mandated the land for the mosque, and the Uttar Pradesh govt allotted us the plot. I am speechless as to why govt departments have not given their NOCs, and why the authority rejected the mosque’s layout plan.””However, during a site inspection done by the fire department, they found that according to the height of the mosque and the hospital building, it was necessary that the approach road should be 12 metres wide. While on the spot, both the approach roads were not more than six metres, and the width of the main approach road was only about four metres,” Husain added.The trust secretary said he had not received any communication about any NOC or rejection. “Apart from the fire department’s objection, I have no idea about any objection by any other department,” he added.”Now that the situation has been made clear to us by the RTI reply, we will decide our further course of action,” he added.
