As many as 323 encroached houses at Shyam Nagar were evicted by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the presence of heavy police force on Monday. Senior officials of administration and police were present during the eviction drive.
After the eviction, guards have been deployed in the area to check the return of the evicted families and in case if the families try to occupy the houses FIR would be registered against those families.
Earlier, the BMC had issued notices to the encroachers and following this, 35 had voluntarily vacated the premises and the BMC officials had evacuated 50 houses forcibly, few days ago. In the series of evictions BMC would be evicting residents of illegally occupied houses.
On Monday, during the eviction drive, SDM Vikas Mishra, Additional Commissioner of BMC Sanjay Kumar, Chief Engineer DK Bhavsar, senior police officers were present. Eviction at such a large scale would face severe opposition and to contain any kind of agitation heavy police force was deployed at the site.
Superintendent of Police Bhopal (South) Anshuman Singh inspected the site of eviction with Additional Superintendent of Police and City Superintendent of Police and important instructions were given by Singh to the police officials.
Under JNNURM 1,440 houses were built in Shyam Nagar for slum dwellers of Shyam Nagar and Rishi Nagar in which 323 houses were encroached and in the action these illegal occupants were removed.
The action of eviction could be taken against those who have been allotted house if the occupants fail to deposit money to BMC.