The Hindu 28.11.2014
Civic body to remove encroachments after winter session of Legislature
The Belagavi City Corporation will remove all encroachments from its property and in the basements of commercial complexes in the city after the winter session of the State legislature.
So far, the corporation has listed 746 cases of encroachments on roads, streets, lanes, footpaths and open sites. There are reportedly around 300 cases of encroachments of commercial complexes all over the city.
The civic body has removed encroachments on the road stretch from Baveshwar Circle (Goaves) to Peeranwadi Cross of the Belagavi-Goa (also called as Khanapur road) National Highway 4A, which passes through the heart of the city.
Encroachments on this Khanapur road were removed after a request from the Public Works Department, which had planned to widen this road stretch.
The government had also sanctioned Rs. 30 crore towards road improvement/widening work to the Public Works Department, which had promised to commence the work soon, Mahesh Keshav Naik, Belagavi Mayor said here on Thursday.
He added that the Commissioner M.R. Ravi Kumar had initiated steps on the issue of corporation officials allegedly withdrawing from removing encroachments of basements of commercial complexes. However, he was transferred but reinstated owing to public demand.
