Wednesday, 15 MAY 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will form a committee on May 16 to analyse the objections received from slum dwellers residing on the riverbed of the Rispana river. The corporation has received only about 20 to 30 objections from slum dwellers out of 89 notices issued so far in the first phase. The recipients of these notices can submit objections till Wednesday evening, the Dehradun municipal commissioner Gaurav Kumar said. The corporation formed a task force to conduct a survey to remove encroachments on the riverbed of the Rispana and Bindal rivers as per the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). In the first phase, the teams identified 525 encroachments in 129 slums alongside the Rispana river that were set up after 2016. The MCD team found after the analysis of the collected data that out of 525 identified encroachments, over 400 structures were formed on MDDA’s land, 12 on Mussoorie municipality’s land and 89 encroachments on MCD’s land. The MCD issued notices to these 89 encroachments on May 8 and contacted MDDA and Mussoorie municipality to take action accordingly at their level. The commissioner said that the committee will be formed to analyse all the objections raised by slum dwellers. “Many have been claiming that they do have genuine documents that show their houses were built before 2016. If the committee finds their claims valid, action will be taken accordingly. It has also come to light that many people just constructed houses on encroached land and sold them for profit. The committee will check such cases as well,” he said. The NGT in a hearing on Monday had also asked the corporation to demarcate the floodplain zones in the city. Kumar said that the Irrigation department was made aware of the order who are expected to start work in the next few days. “What else we need to do in the matter will be cleared once NGT issues its written order,” he added.
