Mayor Alok Sharma ordered beautification of the encroachment-free areas on platform number 06 of the Railway station. He announced a sum of Rs 5 cr for the beautification and development of the area. Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) will decorate the encroachment free places with fountains, plantations and electric lightings.
Sharma, while announcing the beautification of the platform number 6, said, “Bhopal is a beautiful place and its name must ring as beautiful and organised city in people’s mind. There are a lot of people who enter into Bhopal through Railway station and this count will soar in coming days of Simhastha.”
Sharma further said that after the encroachment was removed the roads near railway station looks wider and clean. The beautification must be done keeping the people in mind who come to Bhopal. He also directed the respective officials to finish all the developmental structures and beautifications as soon as possible.
Notably, the BMC has removed a large no. of encroachers from the platform No. 06 in the recent past. These encroachment free roads are looking wide and clean now, and will be decorated with fountains, plantations and electric lightings.
Meanwhile, the anti encroachment drive started after the decision taken in the BMC special meeting for discussing encroachments across the city the squad removed encroachments from Prabhat petrol pump to Ayodhya bypass on Sunday. During the anti encroachment drive two cranes, 12 kiosks and handcarts, 8 two wheelers and bricks, sand and road metal were seized. It was the second day of the drive in that building construction material was seized in huge quantity. It required six trucks to carry the seized materials.
In the drive 200 employees were involved in the operation on Sunday that was carried throughout the day. Action was taken against the traders dealing in building materials and encroached in front portion of their shops.