CHENNAI: Two years after the Madras prime courtroom ordered the removing of squatters from more than a few portions of the ecologically sensitive Pallikaranai marshland and no less than 500 other people had been issued eviction notices, the illegal residents stay.
The income division has not been giving the desired give a boost to, say forest deparment officials who've collected main points of 575 encroachers and want information about another 510 squatters. An official said the encroachments had taken position sooner than the land was handed over to them and when the marsh was underneath the income division's control.
Of the five spaces where the marshland land has been converted into residential plots, Kamakshi Amman Nagar has 550 squatters, followed by Okay P Kandhan Nagar (230), Quaid-e-Milleth Nagar (115), Ambedkar Nagar (110) and Mahalakshmi Nagar (70).
In November closing yr, the forest division started issuing eviction notices sooner than the monsoon forced a halt. Work restarted in December and persisted until February this yr. During the three-month period, a tahsildhar from Kancheepuram district accompanied the forest officials on most occasions. But, on every occasion they had been 'surrounded' by the squatters, there were no income officials, said a forester. "All the encroachments have taken place when the property was with the revenue department. But the court ordered us to remove the encroachments with the help of revenue and other officials who have not been helping," he added.
Another officer said that all the way through a meeting on the secretariat a couple of months in the past, the income and other departments had been represented by local officials who promised to tell higher-u.s.in regards to the gradual development of the eviction process. Nothing took place, he said.
Pallikaranai, one of the most closing last wetlands in the Chennai region, has been suffering to live on regardless of the tremendous power exerted by humans via indiscriminate dumping of garbage, freeing untreated uncooked sewage and throwing hazardous wastes along its banks or even in the heart. Originally unfold over 7,000 hectares, the marsh is now decreased to an insignificant 695 hectares. A sizebale portion of this has been become a dump yard whose measurement is step by step however inexorably extending each yr.
The income division has not been giving the desired give a boost to, say forest deparment officials who've collected main points of 575 encroachers and want information about another 510 squatters. An official said the encroachments had taken position sooner than the land was handed over to them and when the marsh was underneath the income division's control.
Of the five spaces where the marshland land has been converted into residential plots, Kamakshi Amman Nagar has 550 squatters, followed by Okay P Kandhan Nagar (230), Quaid-e-Milleth Nagar (115), Ambedkar Nagar (110) and Mahalakshmi Nagar (70).
In November closing yr, the forest division started issuing eviction notices sooner than the monsoon forced a halt. Work restarted in December and persisted until February this yr. During the three-month period, a tahsildhar from Kancheepuram district accompanied the forest officials on most occasions. But, on every occasion they had been 'surrounded' by the squatters, there were no income officials, said a forester. "All the encroachments have taken place when the property was with the revenue department. But the court ordered us to remove the encroachments with the help of revenue and other officials who have not been helping," he added.
Another officer said that all the way through a meeting on the secretariat a couple of months in the past, the income and other departments had been represented by local officials who promised to tell higher-u.s.in regards to the gradual development of the eviction process. Nothing took place, he said.
Pallikaranai, one of the most closing last wetlands in the Chennai region, has been suffering to live on regardless of the tremendous power exerted by humans via indiscriminate dumping of garbage, freeing untreated uncooked sewage and throwing hazardous wastes along its banks or even in the heart. Originally unfold over 7,000 hectares, the marsh is now decreased to an insignificant 695 hectares. A sizebale portion of this has been become a dump yard whose measurement is step by step however inexorably extending each yr.
TN: Encroachments remain on Pallikaranai marsh
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