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Faridabad MC reclaims 14 acres from builder

FARIDABAD: The Faridabad Municipal Corporation recovered 14 acres on the Surajkund road which had been encroached upon by a private builder several years ago.

Faridabad MC reclaims 14 acres from builder

A wall being razed in Faridabad on Friday. Tribune photo



Bijendra Ahlawat
Tribune News Service
Faridabad, February 15

The Faridabad Municipal Corporation recovered 14 acres on the Surajkund road which had been encroached upon by a private builder several years ago.

Disclosing this, a corporation spokesperson said a drive was carried out today with the help of the police force and it took four hours to raze a wall that had been erected on MC land on the Surajkund road.

“The MC team reached the spot around 7 am and pulled down a wall almost 2.75 kilometres in length around the land encroached upon,’’ said Ombir Singh, Faridabad MC Executive Engineer, who supervised the operation.

The MC had recently learnt about the encroachment, Ombir claimed, adding that that the corporation was surveying all such encroachments and the authorities concerned would pull down any construction that had come up illegally on its land.

With unauthorised constructions up in recent years, the Faridabad MC has also written to forest department about the existence of over 140 farmhouses and banquet halls that have come up on the land under the Forest Act.

It has submitted a report that farmhouses and marriage halls have illegally come up in the Surajkund area over the past few years and should be demolished. Of about 10,000 acres under the PLPA (Punjab Land Protection Act) in the district, over 4,000 acres is located in the Surajkund area, which includes the Kant Enclave that faces demolition after a Supreme Court decision last year.

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