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Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:52:47 PM (IST)

M'lore: AC Leads Demolition Drive against Guest Houses on Someshwar Sea Shore

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M'lore: AC Leads Demolition Drive against Guest Houses on Someshwar Sea Shore

Pics: Sphoorty Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP/SB)

Mangalore, Nov 5: Dakshina Kannada district administration after initially targeting the roadside petty shops and tiny structures for demolition, has taken on bigger buildings.

The demolition team equipped with three backhoes is headed by assistant commissioner Prabhulinga Kavalikatti, the construction on illegal encroachment of government land began at around 6.30 am on Thursday November 5 at Someshwar sea shore in the city outskirts. In a daylong drive as the first demolished building, a guest house of a person residing in Mumbai in Battapady here and maintained by a local caretaker has been demolished. The land was encroached about 20 years ago and the construction came up during early 2000s.

However, locals protested stating that demolition drive is beign undertaken without the prior notice. Tight police security has been provided and Panambur deputy superintendent of police Girish was on the spot. Home guards too have been posted to quell any resistance.

Speaking to reporters, Kavalikatti said that a total of 100 acres of land in the area has been encroached in violation of Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) Notifications 1991. He said that since 2003 notices has been served for over 15 times to clear the encroached land with last one being served about two months ago. However, as the notices remained unanswered, the demolition drive has been undertaken, he said. In all 14 illegal constructions have come up, among which occupants of the three buildings have moved high court and secured a stay against demolition.

Tahsildar Ravichandra too was present at the spot.

Comments on this article

Rosy D'souza, Bajpe, Mangalore

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Good Job By the D.C. against all the illegal constructions at public places. But here I would like to point out my opinion. While demolishing all those posh buildings, they could have atleast spared the wooden door frames, window frames and any other re-usable wooden materials and other fittings and the same could have auctioned or used in the construction of the houses of poor flood hit victims. Also I have a question here, what they are going to do with the demolition debris, especially the stone, cement plaster debris and the broken marble & granite tile pieces & other materials? I think they will leave them as it is in the places of demolition for years!! These things cant be re-used at all. Otherwise the authorities will dump these debris in some other public places. In my opinion instead of demolishing, the govt. should have taken possession of these buildings and used it for some other purposes. ? Also the authorities involved in constructing these illegal buildings should be punished heavily.