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As deadline nears, officials yet to remove encroachments

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The Hindu        16.07.2017  

As deadline nears, officials yet to remove encroachments

The encroachments in Jeeva Nagar, Kavundampalayam, that the authorities are yet to remove.S. SIVA SARAVANANS_ SIVA SARAVANAN  

HC had asked authorities to evict occupants of 121 houses in Jeeva Nagar

The Madras High Court had on January 19 this year asked the Coimbatore district administration, Coimbatore Corporation and the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board to remove within six months the encroachments in Jeeva Nagar, Kavundampalayam.

The deadline given by the then Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M. Sundar would expire by July 19, three days away. But the officials seemed to have done very little in this regard.

The court had delivered its judgement in writ petitions filed by the K.K. Pudur Residents Welfare Association and the Nagammal Street Residents Welfare Association that had sought a direction to the authorities to evict the occupants of the 121 houses in Jeeva Nagar, who by building houses had reduced from 70 feet to 15 feet the width of the one-km-long road that connects Mettupalayam Road with Thadagam Road.

It said that though there was no dispute among the parties to the case that the residents had indeed encroached upon the road space, it would not accept the arguments of the district administration, Coimbatore Corporation and the Board that the people had moved into the area a few years before the petitioner-association members had built houses.

The court also found fault with the district administration’s approach to the issue and dismissed the argument that the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board had notified the area for slum development and had spent a few lakh rupees.

But now with the deadline a few days away, the petitioner associations complained that none of the authorities, cited as respondents, had complied with the order.

They would move the court for contempt, said K.K.M. Shelvaraju, president of the K.K. Pudur association.

List sent for approval

Sources said that the Coimbatore Corporation had completed capturing the biometric details of the occupants to be evicted and shared the details with the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board for action.

The Board officials confirmed the receipt of the Corporation’s list and said that they had sent it to their head office for approval.

Once the head office granted the approval, the Board along with the civic body and district administration would relocate the people to its tenements in Keeranatham and thereafter demolish their houses in Jeeva Nagar.

 

Shopping complex demolished for bus terminus at Vadavalli

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The Hindu        02.03.2017  

Shopping complex demolished for bus terminus at Vadavalli

Corporation workers removing goods from shops that are part of its shopping complex at Vadavalli in the city on Wednesday.HANDOUT_E_MAIL  

Shopkeepers allege that the Corporation had not given them adequate time to vacate

The civic body on Wednesday removed a shopping complex at Vadavalli amidst opposition by occupants.

Officials from the Town Planning wing demolished the complex that belonged to the Corporation. They said that the complex with eight shops - four on the ground and four on the first floors - stood on the pathway of the proposed bus terminus.

The Corporation needed a 50 feet width pathway on the southern side - Marudhamalai Road - to facilitate the entry and exit of buses to the proposed terminus. The shopping complex ate away nearly 25 feet and so had to be removed. The officials also said that the Corporation had already demolished around 10 private shops on the south eastern side of the proposed terminus and also an old public toilet. The civic body had proposed construction of the terminus on 2.02 acre at Vadavalli, north of the existing terminus, with adequate passenger facilities. The shopkeepers in the complex alleged that the Corporation had not given them adequate time to vacate the premises. It had not issued notices to vacate and thereby had not followed the due process of law.

An occupant said that he had paid the rent in advance - till March. Now with the Corporation forcing him to vacate, he wanted to know the fate of the money he had paid. Officials said that the Corporation did serve the notice 15 days ago but they refused to take it. The civic body had followed the procedures and there was nothing much for the shopkeepers to complain about.

 

‘Remove all encroachments’

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The Hindu     21.02.2017

‘Remove all encroachments’

 Shopkeepers in Big Bazaar Street told; given time for a few days

The Tiruchi City Police and the Corporation authorities have joined hands to tackle the issue of encroachments and congestion on the Big Bazaar street – the city’s prominent commercial hot spot.

Dotted with commercial establishments on either side of the entire stretch, the Big Bazaar street also known as ‘Periya Kadai Veedhi’ is always abuzz with trading activity till the late night hours.

Indiscriminate parking of vehicles along the busy stretch and encroachments by some of the shopkeepers makes it difficult for a free ride for motorists coming from the Gandhi Market arch and from the by lanes.

Realising the problem, the law enforcers and the civic body have now come together in a conscious effort to address the twin issues of congestion and encroachments along the Big Bazaar street.

A team of city traffic police personnel led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) S. Prabhakaran along with senior Corporation officials on Saturday asked the shopkeepers to remove the encroachments as early as possible to ease congestion and ensure smooth ride for motorists from the Gandhi Market arch towards the NSB road.

The shopkeepers have been given time for a couple of days to remove the encroachments along the stretch.

The civic body officials would remove encroachments with assistance provided by the police if the traders failed to remove them, said Deputy Commissioner Prabhakaran.

The city police would hold a meeting with the traders on February 21 to insist them to remove encroachments, he said.

The city police have planned one-side parking of two-wheelers along the Periya Kadai veedhi.

The plan is to have parking on one side for the first 15 days and parking on the other side of the stretch on the second half of the month.

Proper paint markings would be done along the street to enable parking of two-wheelers.

 


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