What appeared to be a major victory for the city people, the State Government in an important move on Friday deferred construction of district court building at Pipliyahana. Now the decision on new venue for the construction of the district court building will be taken by a high-powered committee to be constituted soon.
This was announced by the lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajahan in presence of all the senior leaders of the BJP including the MlAs Mahendra Hardia, Manoj Patel, Indore Mayor Malini Gaud, former IDA chairman Madhu Verma as well as the Congress MlA from Rau Jeetu Jirati.
Mahajan while making an announcement to this effect, thanked Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for considering the plea of the city people and all those environment and other bodies which had been struggling to save this lake since 1995. After series of parleys with Indore leaders, Chief Minister today finally acceded to common public sentiment of Indore and twitted announcing deferring of the construction of the district court building at Pipliyahana lake, adding that the decision on the new venue of the district court would be taken by an empowered committee comprising a judge from the High Court.
For the past sometime, people from all walks of life in the city had been agitating along with representatives of various organizations of the city to protest construction of district court building at Pipliyahana lakh. Even lawyers of the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court and lower courts also abstained from duty here yesterday to protest the annexe construction of the district court building adjacent to the century-old Pipliyahana lake. Around 10,000 advocates abstained from work against the proposed annexe construction of the district court building on MG Road as they were of the view that the construction of the new building will affect the water body and ground water levels around the lake.