The joint eviction team consisting of the BDA, the BMC, the GA Department, the R&B Division of the Works Department and the Commissionerate police on Thursday cleared roadside encroachments of around one-km-long distance between Niladri Vihar
Square and Kanyashram Square under the Chandrasekharpur police limits in the city. The encroachment was carried out in the area for widening of existing road (four-lane) starting from Niladri Vihar Square to Kanyashram Squre.
The joint team demolished around 40 barbed wire fencing, six boundary walls, eight to ten numbers of wooden cabins, 10-15 temporary structures (used as garage, out houses and shops), a staircase, a Hanuman temple made by the Jay Bajrangbali Auto Owners Association, around 10 thatched houses (used as temporary shop, hotels and kabadia shop).
BDA Enforcement Officer Pramod Kumar Patra, liasioning Officer Subhransu Sekhar Mohanty, BMC Enforcement Officer Mulla Mahamad and officials from the GA Department, the Works Department and the Commissionerate Police were supervising the demolition drive.