The Pioneer 06.05.2013
Eviction drive at Jugsalai; 80 shop owners face ire
In a major eviction drive more than 80 shop owners and owners
of residential premises faced the Jugsalai Mucipality’s ire as the civic
body carried out the drive from the densely-populated Station Road on
Sunday.
According to officials of the Jugsalai Municipality, the owners of the
shops and residences had been given permission to put up cement slab
over the drains passing on either side of the road. But instead of
putting the slab, most of them had concretted the platform, several of
them blocking the drain. As a result of which the drainage system had
collapsed, causing the rain water to spill over to the road leading to
traffic congestion.
“Most of the shops here had come up with extension the government land
and still the process of encroachment is on. Those who pass through this
road daily but hardly bother to initiate any steps to remove the
encroachments,” said Prakash Sharma, a social worker.
The anti-encroachment drive at Jugsalai had actually begun on the
Jugsalai-Station Road on Saturday afternoon, but it had stopped in a
while after one of the shop-keepers and his men had resisted the civic
body’s move.
The drive was resumed this morning on the Station Road, but
signifcantly there was no protest from the shop-keeper and owners of the
residential premises. Rather several of the owners of the shops and
residences were seen dismantling the extended portion by themselves.
Special officer, Jugsalai Municipality, Sitaram Singh said that the
anti-encroachment drive will continue for the next one week during which
they would clear the encroachment from the roads in Jugsalai.
Meanwhile several illegal jhuggis and shops have been raised in areas
in Mango, Golpahari, Loco Colony, Karandih, Jugsalai, Sakchi
andBistupur. Though several times the anti-encroachment drives have been
carried but due to support of local goons the people are able to
intrude the land again.