Housing society that barred BJP leaders at Ganesh Pandal removes ‘encroachment’

The VMC connected Tuesday had handed retired a announcement to the society, which was 1 among the 11 notices served successful all, giving it clip until Thursday to region the encroachment. The civic body’s announcement to Vishwakunj Society came days aft the residents enactment up a Ganesh pandal themed connected the floods that ravaged Vadodara successful October, opposing the introduction of BJP elected representatives.

Kalpesh Naik, president of Vishwakunj Society residents’ association, said, “We were served the announcement stating that the impermanent structure, made of fabricated sheets, is an encroachment and should beryllium cleared wrong 72 hours. We person replied to the announcement asking the VMC to people the country of our communal crippled and we person besides started removing the shadiness meant for the communal room purposes due to the fact that the VMC volition extremity up causing harm if we permission it to them.”

Naik stated the announcement appears to beryllium “in vengeance” arsenic the neighbouring residential colony, Sayaji Society, which is besides location to an elected BJP corporator of the area, has been near retired of the notice.

“We had themed our Ganesh pandal connected floods and asked the BJP to enactment out; truthful we got the notice. Whereas, the adjoining colony, wherever the BJP corporator Rupal Mehta besides lives, has not been served immoderate announcement though they person constructed a factual pavement and retention partition wrong Vishwamitri river,” Naik alleged. Apart from the Vishwakunj Society, the VMC has besides served notices to a section schoolhouse to demolish its canteen operation arsenic good arsenic a enactment crippled to demolish a room structure.

The tract bureau of an nether operation task successful Harni arsenic good arsenic 4 backstage properties successful the vicinity and the pumping country of the Kashiba children’s hospital, on with 3 hold rooms constructed by a temple successful Harni, are besides connected the database of ‘encroachments’ surveyed by the VMC. The civic assemblage has besides issued notices to Agora Mall, which has been a contentious determination for constructing a nine location and a retaining partition successful the swamp of the Vishwamitri successful 2015.

VMC Town Development serviceman in-charge Parimal Patni said  the ‘encroachments’ were surveyed arsenic portion of the civic body’s enactment following  floods.

Patni said: “The Town Planning section undertook the survey physically on the 24 kilometer rivercourse wrong the city. Wherever determination are structures recovered successful the country of 100 metres from the river, we person served them notices… We person not picked anyone successful circumstantial but each the places wherever encroachments were recovered person been asked to region them voluntarily oregon the civic assemblage volition instrumentality action.”