In a joint eviction drive on Tuesday, the Central Enforcement Monitoring Committee (CEMC) consisting of officials and staff of BDA, BMC, General Administration Department, Bhubaneswar Puri Transport Services (BPTS) and Commissionerate Police reclaimed an area of more than 6.5 acres for development of a depot-cum bus terminal for city bus services here.
The unauthorised encroachments were removed in Patrapada Mouza and Bhagabanpur Mouza under Khandagiri and Tamando police limits respectively. During the eviction process the Vivekananda Sishu Mandir, the Vivekananda Sishu Pathagara, gymnasium the Bhagabanpur-Patrapada Health Club, a thatched house, an under construction house of about 1,000 sqft and a stone compound wall of nearly 230 ft were demolished.
Apart from these, near about 800 feet length of earth was excavated for construction of compound wall around the land. Additional Commissioner-cum-Member Enforcement, BDA, Bhabani Shankar Chayani, Enforcement Officer-II Pramod Kumar Patro, liaison Officer Subhransu Sekhar Mohanty, Zone ACP PK Rout, Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) land Protection Cell, BDA, Niraj Kumar Pattnaik, AE land Protection Cell, BDA, Deepak Kumar Pattnaik, Revenue Supervisor, GAD Amiya Kumar Das and Transport Planner from BPTS Ashish Suman were present.