Tuesday, 13 October 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) and district administration will commence the demolition of the encroachments in the city from Tuesday. According to the officials, the city is broadly divided into the four zones for the removal of encroachments and the corporation will possibly start the work to demolish the establishments in the encroached area of these zones together. The Dehradun municipal commissioner, Vinay Shankar Pandey is the head of the anti-encroachment task force in the city. Talking about this, Pandey said that all the arrangements have been made to remove the encroachments by the corporation. He said that the MCD already has all the necessary information for demolishing the structures including the survey records and details of marked encroached areas of Dehradun so the process of demolition would start without any hassle on Tuesday. He further informed that the news of demolition was also spread through various means like audio announcements in the city in the marked areas to make people aware of the situation. On the question of the removal of encroachments along the riverside areas like the constructions along the Rispana and Bindal rivers, Pandey said that those are slum areas and the demolition task will not disturb such areas. The task of removing encroachments will be carried out mainly in the areas including Rajpur Road, Haridwar Road, Chakrata Road and Saharanpur Road, as per the officials. The officials informed that in the last few weeks, the complaints against the encroachments in the city, especially in the marketplaces, also increased in the corporation and demolition of such structures will possibly provide some relaxation to the residents of the city.
