Under its ongoing drive against dilapidated houses in the city, the demolition gang of Indore Municipal Corporation here Wednesday demolished dilapidated structures of three houses in the located in Kanoongo Bakhal and Nandlalpura localities.
The demolition gang of the IMC accompanied by senior IMC officials Vivek Jain, Virendra Upadhyay, Vinod Agrawal and others on Wednesday morning at around10.30 am reached 14/6 Kanoongo Bakhal and demolished dilapidated walls of the house owned by Vijay laxmi, Sitaram and Ramesh Chandra jointly.
Notwithstanding resistance from the house owners, the IMC squad demolished some portions of the house which had got decayed to a
large extent.
The IMC squad however, left the remaining part of the house after getting a written undertaking from the house owners that they will themselves be responsible for any mishap in case of any damage to the house on account of its dilapidated structure. In addition to this, the IMC squad also demolished dilapidated structures of two more house in Nandlalpura.
The IMC had started the drive against dilapidated houses in the city started three days back. Fearing damage to life and property during the monsoon season, the Indore municipal corporation sometime back had carried out survey of dilapidated houses in the city and accordingly identified 108 dilapidated houses/buildings in all 15 zones of the corporation in the city.
Drive to demolish dilapidated structures/building/house has been started by the IMC three days back, informed IMC officer Virendra Kumar Upadhyay, adding that notwithstanding the IMC serving notices to the proprietors of these houses for dismantling of their dilapidated structure, the demolition works of the IMC against such houses gets affected due to row between tenants and landlords of these houses. On the other hand legal wrangles as many of the landlords have taken recourse to court against demolition works.