Ahmedabad MC demolition drive continues

AHMEDABAD: Officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation were embroiled in heated arguments with residents when they went to remove encroachments in Motera, where illegal construction had come up on an AMC reserved plot.
Officials said as they went to the area, local residents who had carried out illegal construction come out and obstructed them and even manhandled them. Officials said the illegal construction was eventually demolished, and the plot was freed.
AMC officials said in Shilaj, three constructions on about 807 square metres were demolished.These were permanent constructions. In West Zone, some 2,100 sq feet of construction on margin space was demolished.
In Sabarmati ward, an illegal room at a primary school which was under construction was also demolished. In the East Zone, in Vastral ward, an illegal construction on the first floor in the Mahadevnagar area was demolished. This construction was on 3,200 square feet.
In the Central Zone, in the Asarwa-Shahibaug area, encroachments on the 4km stretch near Ratnasagar Crossroads was removed and 968 sq feet of commercial sheds and 19 enroachments were removed.