In pursuance of orders of the Uttarakhand High Court, the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA), Municipal Corporation of Dehradun and district administration undertook the exercise of identifying encroachments and illegal constructions on footpaths, lanes and roads in Dehradun city on Thursday.
Additional Chief Secretary Om Prakash informed that on Thursday under the anti-encroachment drive, 246 illegal encroachments were identified. A total of 1889 illegal encroachments have been identified till date. The work to identify illegal encroachments will be taken up speedily.
The additional chief secretary instructed the task force formed to remove the encroachments that it should keep an eye on the areas where encroachments have been removed to ensure that there is no further encroachment till the work on road widening starts. He said that the marking of the pillars erected at the places where encroachments have been removed should also be speeded up.
Chief of the task force and MDDA vice chairman Ashish Kumar Srivastav said that the process of identification of illegal buildings will also be speeded up.
Meanwhile, sources informed that the high court of Uttarakhand did not provide an immediate relief to operators of about a dozen clinics in Dehradun who had filed a review petition regarding the anti-encroachment drive.