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MC wakes up to clear encroachments ahead of CM visit

Thursday, 30 January 2014 06:25 administrator
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The Indian Express              30.01.2014

MC wakes up to clear encroachments ahead of CM visit

Demolition drive at Sector 32. (Express photo) 

Two days before Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s scheduled visit to the area to lay the foundation stone of a hospital, Ludhiana Municipal Corporation woke up and removed encroachments from Chandigarh road and Tajpur road in Zone B.

On February 1, the Chief Minister will visit the area to lay foundation stone of a hospital. On Wednesday the building branch team and tehbazaari team led a joint operation. More than 40 slums, temporary shops and other encroachments were removed.

Rajiv Saggar, building branch inspector said, “More than 40 jhuggis and shops have been removed which were made illegally.

We also demolished some concrete encroachments to clear the area.”

Meanwhile, a shop was sealed on Hambran Road Dhobi Ghat as the owner failed to pay house tax despite repeated warnings. J S Sekhon, superintendent Zone D said, “We went there to seal five shops but the other four agreed to pay tax.”

 

13 lakh acres of land encroached upon in State

Thursday, 30 January 2014 05:37 administrator
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The Hindu             30.01.2014

13 lakh acres of land encroached upon in State

A whopping 13,02,241 acres of government land in the State has been encroached upon. Of this, only 1,00,555 acres has been cleared, according to Revenue Minister V. Srinivas Prasad.

Replying to Janata Dal (Secular) member Basavaraj Horatti during Question Hour in the Legislative Council on Wednesday, Mr. Prasad said the State has 62,25,339 acres of government land and around one-fifth has been encroached upon.

According to district-wise data of encroachments furnished by the Minister, Dakshina Kannada district topped the list with encroachment on 1,95,638 acres, followed by Shimoga (1,49,604 acres), Chickmagalur (1,04,280 acres) and Udupi (85,969 acres).

Bangalore Urban district, that comprises Bangalore city, has encroachments on 34,111 acres while the districts surrounding the city, such as Bangalore Rural (14,393 acres), Ramanagaram (74,611 acres) and Chickballapur (79,563 acres) too have substantial extent of encroachments.

The revenue division-wise data shows that Mysore division, comprising eight districts of Mysore, Hassan, Mandya, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chickmagalur, Kodagu and Chamarajanagar accounts for highest encroachments on 5,78,934 acres. This is followed by Bangalore Division (4,79,446 acres), Gulbarga Division (1,51,604 acres) and Belgaum Division (92,246 acres).

Mr. Prasad said deputy commissioners of the districts were in the process of preparing a time-bound district-level action plan for clearing encroachments in their jurisdictions as per the directive issued by the government.

The Minister said the process of implementation of the recommendations by the A.T. Ramaswamy committee and the Task Force for Recovery of Public Lands, headed by the former bureaucrat V. Balasubramanian was under way. This included formation of a high-level committee headed by the Chief Secretary, district-level committees headed by deputy commissioners, taluk-level committees led by tahsildars and inter-departmental committees comprising Principal Secretaries, to deal sternly with encroachments.

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 January 2014 07:09
 

Civic body clears encroachments amidst protest

Friday, 10 January 2014 06:41 administrator
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Deccan Chronicle             10.01.2014

Civic body clears encroachments amidst protest

Hyderabad: There was chaos near the Ek Minar Masjid and Darussalam Road on Thursday afternoon as the GHMC, traffic and other police personnel cleared encroachments on the road.

Owners of local shops, automobile workshops and metalware stores got into a heated argument with the officials who carted away the scrap material, metal bars and other junk that was stored on the road.

The road was widened a couple of years ago to ease traffic but the encroachments meant it was back to square one, residents say.

Yaseen Shakir, 61, a resident of the area said, “The whole point of widening the road is to avoid traffic congestion. People have started putting up unfinished grills, automobiles, windows and other stuff on the road. I have myself escaped accidents several times. It is important to remove such things from roads.”

Shaik Zaheer, 42, a carpenter who has a shop on the road, said that corporation workers did not give him time to move his stuff off the road.

“The moment they arrived, they started picking up things and loading them on to trucks. They should have at least warned us,” he said.

Mukesh Singh, section officer with GHMC’s town planning wing, said they had received numerous complaints regarding encroachments on the road.

“We launch these drives whenever there is a complaint. This is a routine procedure. But, sometimes, people just don’t co-operate and we are forced to seize their stuff. Sometimes, we warn them once and come back the next day, only to find everything still lying on the road.”

Some residents said the encroachments were cleared speedily to facilitate traffic movement during the Milad-Un-Nabi procession, which will be held soon.
 
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