In a massive operation on Saturday, May 2nd 2015 the Bengaluru District administration demolished at least few hundreds of illegal buildings and structures and is said to have reclaimed land worth of Rs. 7, 551 crores. This reclaimed land by the government also includes 711 acres of forest land of Kadugodi Plantation.
The operation was well coordinated with the district police cracking down on the land encroachments on Banaswadi lake. They also demolished illegal structures near Munekollolu near Marathahalli Bridge and also in the four villages of Hilalagi, Rayasandra, Anekal Town and Shivanahallli, all belonging to the Anekal Taluk situated in the outskirts of the city. Last fortnight there was another reclamation drive taken up by the district administration which recovered land worth of Rs. 2000 crores in Sarakki Lake of J.P. Nagar.
The Urban Deputy Commissioner V Shankar said that in this reclamation drive the biggest achievement was the saving of Kadugodi Plantation which is a large stretch of government land being eyed by the land sharks. Mr. V. Shankar spearheaded the demolition drive against encroachment as was directed by the Karnataka High Court.
The Kadugodi Plantation in Bengaluru East Taluk has been declared to be a forest land and was duly handed over to the forest department in the year 1989. The revenue records did not contain the details of its Khata or the mutation extract. The commissioner said that in the land situated in the tech corridor the encroachment of land is of the order of five acres. He said land worth of Rs. 7, 100 crore had been recovered. The residents of the area has been granted time to vacate the area by making alternative arrangements.
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The official said that 2.39 acres of land encroachment had been reclaimed in HRBR Layout near Banaswadi Lake. According to the commissioner’s statement, notice had been served to the two petrol pumps, one commercial complex, a temple and a few numbers of houses before starting the demolition work. The government had kept track of 222 sites totaling to 14.27 acres in HRBR Layout which was encroached in 1988- 1989. Shankar said the government had issued notices to people who had bought land plots in this area. The district administration is waiting as the issue is with the government and will take a call after the government’s decision.
The district Administration earlier recovered land worth of Rs. 300 crore from Navajeevan Neelaya Trust which ran a private school and a girl’s hostel also instead of the scheduled rehabilitation centre for the leprosy patients which it was supposed to set up.
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Land reclaim is good but the government at least should think about the poor people and their family also those who are making business there. The people who are living for a long time should get a place for temporary for their immediate displacement.
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Our Government has to take hard steps in order to make the city infra structure better. Bangalore is a beautiful city it should kept beautiful and organized. I am not saying to through out unnecessary people or demolish their living place, I am just saying we can relocated them in a proper place. Also those people who encroaches government property should be punished by law.
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Grabbing land in the name of God is common every where in India. So if the government is taking steps to vanish such activities than its good for us. But the encroached land should be properly used for development so that further no one can again claim any government property for such use.
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This land encroachment made the real estate market slower and increase in unsold inventories in the city. I think this action should repeated within time interval so that people will stop using government property for their personal use.
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Those property which are under Government under take should took back by the government, people with the help of some political parties are capturing such places for their personal use. Still a lot to go, because of these illegal constructions only Bangalore is facing traffic problem every day.
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This is preety good news for all of us that government property is recovered from these land mafias. The city will look clean and organized and government now can think to build more commercial and residential spaces in specified areas.
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Of course and this should not stopped rather this kind of steps should be taken with in interval of time. So that no one can dare to grab government land for their personal use. This work needs more appreciations also there should more hard laws for land mafias.
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Good work by our Government Administrators this kind of campaign should run with in time interval because as long as the government land stay vacant mafia will try to encroach these property. The property recovered by government will be very helpful for public usages.
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This government property should not kept unused for long time at least they should use it for some public purpose or should put a government sign board there otherwise again people will grab it for their personal uses.
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