INDORE: District administration along with Indore Development Authority (IDA) and Indore Municipal Corporation
(IMC) is going to carry out a survey of illegal constructions and
encroachments in scheme no 171 from Tuesday. All the illegal
constructions and encroachments will be demolished in a drive expected
to start in next few days.

Many people-mainly plot owners of
Nyay Nagar Extension, one of the colonies under scheme no 171, have been
complaining about encroachments and illegal constructions on around 200
plots of the society. Plot owners have complained to the collector,
division commissioner and raised the issue at Lasudia police
station recently during ‘Bhoomi Sravan Abhiyan’. Following this, the
division commissioner had instructed officials to take action against
the complaints.Scheme no 171 is one of the most controversial areas of
IDA. Few months ago, the IDA board had decided to exempt four housing
societies from its scheme. After the decision, the size of the scheme
was reduced to nearly 200 hectare from its initial size of 252 hectare.

As of now, lands of nearly eight colonies are coming under the scheme
and plot owners have been demanding exemption for their societies from
the scheme. All these societies have approved layout from town and
country department but no construction was done till the time of
announcement of scheme.

Around 7,000-8,000 plots have been
registered under these societies and IDA had promised to give land to
all the bonafied plot owners.

IDA had also formed a committee
to look into the documents and submit their report on the basis of which
plots will be allotted.

Now IDA is expected to raise this issue once again in its upcoming board meeting.