Bengaluru’s civic physique – Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) – resumed the anti-encroachment drive on Thursday on the metropolis’s Mahadevapura zone. After conducting a survey, the BBMP eliminated six encroachments in Munnekollal and Shantiniketan format areas, stated the civic physique.
In line with BBMP’s assertion, the officers have recognized 142 constructions that had been constructed on stormwater drains out of which 131 are anticipated to be cleared on this section of the anti-encroachment drive. “Out of 142 encroachments which might be but to be cleared, 11 are court-related. Survey work is being carried out in reference to the eviction of 131 encroachments, and essential steps are being taken to hold out the eviction of storm water drain encroachments,” stated the assertion.
Nevertheless, on Thursday, BBMP demolished two buildings, three sheds and one compound wall that had been allegedly constructed on the stormwater drains within the Mahadevapura zone.
BBMP additionally said that in 2015-16, the civic physique had recognized 2,671 encroachments and claimed that 2,073 encroachments have already been eliminated.
After floods created havoc in components of Bengaluru in September, the BBMP began its anti-encroachment drive to raze unlawful buildings that had been constructed on the stormwater drains in a number of areas of the Mahadevapura zone which had been allegedly inflicting flooding.