NMC to start demolition illegal religious structures from today
Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation will start demolition of illegal religious structures from Friday. After the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court flayed the NMC for its inaction to remove illegal religious structures, municipal commissioner Virendra Singh on Thursday convened a meeting of all the 10 assistant municipal commissioners along with deputy commissioner of police (special branch) Smartana Patil.
It was decided in the meeting that the NMC will start demolition of all the illegal structures from June 22 itself. “On very first day, 12 structures will be removed from the areas in Laxmi Nagar, Dharampeth and Hanuman Nagar,” said a senior official from the civic body.
This time, the official explained, even on fourth Saturday (June 23) and on Sunday (June 24), the civic body will demolish the illegal structures. According to the official, the NMC’s estate department along with traffic police had conducted a survey of religious structures in the city and found 1,521 structures.
The civic body divided the figures into two categories A and B. Citing heritage value, NMC legalized 18 religious structures, while under Category B, it had identified 1,503 illegal structures that pose law and order problem or obstruct flow of traffic and which cannot be regularized.
The NMC had also received 80 objections and also found 175 structures of before May 1, 1960. So, now it will target the remaining 1,248. Most of these structures came up on government lands. As many as 553 such structures come up on the NMC land. There were 564 structures on NIT land, 92 on the plots belonging to nazul department, 28 on agriculture college properties and 22 on PWD-owned land.
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