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| Edited By: Archana Dahiwal |Source: DNA |Updated: Aug 28, 2012, 01:41 PM IST
With the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s anti-encroachment drive going on in full swing notwithstanding political opposition, the Pimpri-Chinchwad New Town Development Authority also plans to resume its demolition drive this week.
Moreover, PCNTDA is also probing whether the authority can take up demolitions of unauthorised structures issuing only 24-hour notices similar to the modus operandi being followed by PCMC.
For the last two months, PCNTDA’s anti-encroachment drive had come to a grinding halt due to lack of police security. The authority is likely to resume action from Thursday. There are a total of 16,600 unauthorised constructions in PCNTDA limit. Of these, 3,500 have been built on reserved lands of PCNTDA.
In the first phase of its drive, PCNTDA has planned to demolish 500 illegal structures on their reserved lands.
According to the PCNTDA’s official spokesperson, the authority has contemplated alternatives such as demolishing illegal structures after issuing mere 24-hour notices to owners, so that action is speeded up. PCMC recently decided to take this course of action for unauthorised constructions within its limits. The PCNTDA has approached the state government for guidance in this regard.
PCNTDA will also demolish commercial illegal structures and vacant residential structures during its drive.
Meanwhile, the leader of the opposition in the legislative council, Vinod Tawade visited Pimpri-Chinchwad twin town on Sunday.
While there, he spoke of his plans to meet the chief minister to find out the possibilities of regularising unauthorised constructions as early as possible on the lines of Ulhasnagar. Tawade also said that he would raise the issue in the winter session of the state assembly.
