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Encroachment around Mehrauli Archaeological Park cleared

SC monitoring committee had directed demolition team to free 40-acre land

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The district commissioner will be visiting Adchini on Friday to clear the area
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The encroachment in and around the Mehrauli Archaeological Park was removed on Thursday on the direction of Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. The demolition team has freed the 40 acres of land by removing the nurseries, tin shacks and huts that were crowding the space around ASI-protected monuments.

A team involving the officials from district commissioner, DDA, Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Delhi police and BSES visited the area. According to sources, the government is going to visit Adchini and Bhatti land in south Delhi in the coming days to make them free of encroachments.

"The places in south Delhi have been identified and the work is on to clear these areas. The illegal encroachment will be removed and the land will be handed over to the DDA," said one of the Delhi government official.

The action is being taken in keeping with the directions of the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee overseeing the removal of all unauthorised occupation of government land. The authorities see the role of "land grabbers" behind most of these encroachments.

The district commissioner will be visiting Adchini on Friday to clear the area.

The south-west district authorities made announcements through mobile public address systems on Tuesday and Wednesday, informing people about the scheduled demolition and asking people to remove their belongings.

On March 15, the monitoring committee members carried out an inspection in and around the archaeological park in the company of officials from DDA and South Delhi Municipal Corporation. On March 22, the committee issued directions to the district task force (south) to initiate legal action to free up all occupied government land around the park. The panel noted with concern that "encroachment and unauthorised construction is growing day by day" in the area.

"INTACH had filed a PIL in 2015 after which the High Court had directed DDA, to take appropriate steps to fence the entire area and prevent it from encroachments. It could be the result of that that they set-up an inquiry committee and carried out the demolition," said Swapna Liddle, Convenor, INTACH.

SC DIKTAT

  • The action is being taken in keeping with the directions of the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee overseeing the removal of all unauthorised occupation of government land. 
     
  • The authorities see the role of “land grabbers” behind most of these encroachments.
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