Eight business buildings have been demolished on Friday as a part of the anti-encroachment drive at Bengaluru’s Banaswadi lake with income division officers saying that the buildings have been constructed on the lake mattress. The drive that began on Thursday will proceed until Saturday, officers added.
A income division official stated that they’d issued notices to the encroachers in 2015. “Notices have been issued to personal events in addition to the Bangalore Growth Authority (BDA). Nonetheless, it was discovered just lately that a number of the encroachers have reclaimed the land from the place they have been evicted,” stated Ajith Kumar Rai, Tehsildar, Bangalore East Taluk. “Even tomorrow the demolition will proceed. The properties have been marked, he stated, including that the eviction drive was carried out on properties that fall beneath Survey No. 211.
Nonetheless, just a few residents claimed that although their properties fell beneath survey numbers 247 and 248, they have been being marked for demolition. “All the eviction drive was carried out from Survey No. 211. When the residents confirmed courtroom orders claiming their properties have been constructed on Survey Nos. 247 and 248, we didn’t contact them. We are going to await directions from the courtroom,” Rai stated.
A resident from Banaswadi, requesting anonymity, stated, “Whereas the police and BBMP employees reached the venue to demolish the encroached buildings, the tehsildar was himself absent. This provides an impression that he was ready for the encroachers to get a keep order from the courtroom.”
On October 19, Sarvagna Nagar constituency MLA Okay J George chaired a gathering with the income division and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to debate the eviction of encroachers from Banaswadi lake. In keeping with the BBMP, a number of non-public residences, temples and a petroleum bunk have been constructed on the lake mattress.