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Coimbatore Corporation has travel nether disapproval for alleged negligence and hold successful reclaiming Open Space Reservation (OSR) onshore successful the city.
S.P. Thiyagarajan, societal activistic and caput of the Tamil Nadu Reserved Site Protection Association, alleged that the Corporation has been dilatory to enactment connected an encroachment of 13 cents of OSR land, valued astatine astir ₹3.5 crore, contempt the Madras High Court precocious dismissing the encroacher’s petition.
The onshore successful question is situated astatine Meenakshi Nagar layout successful Saravanampatti, wrong Ward 4. Mr. Thiyagarajan said the layout was approved implicit 32 years ago, erstwhile Saravanampatti was a municipality panchayat. The program covered 5.04 acres, including 54 residential plots, with 50 cents (21,981 sq. ft.) reserved for a nationalist park.
Official records amusement that the reserved tract and interior roads were handed implicit to the past Saravanampatti Town Panchayat done a registered acquisition deed successful 1993. Subsequently, 13 cents of the OSR onshore were reportedly encroached upon by a neighbouring spot owner. In July 2021, the Corporation’s Town Planning Officer (TPO) issued a announcement directing the encroachment to beryllium removed.
The encroacher challenged the announcement successful the Madras High Court, seeking to person it quashed and requesting alternate land. After astir 5 years, a Division Bench comprising Justices S.M. Subramaniam and Kumarappan dismissed the petition connected December 19 this year.
Mr. Thiyagarajan said that notwithstanding the dismissal of the petition, the Corporation did not initiate follow-up action. He claimed that Town readying officials, on with constabulary personnel, had completed preliminary arrangements to demolish the encroaching compound partition utilizing an earthmover to reclaim the land. However, helium alleged that governmental involution by influential persons led to a last-minute directive from the Commissioner to suspend the operation, contrary to the High Court’s order.
Mr. Thiyagarajan besides criticised the Corporation implicit 13 cents of OSR onshore successful the E.V. Ramasamy Periyar Nagar layout, wherever encroachments person not yet been afloat removed contempt notices being issued.
A elder Corporation authoritative said the High Court had dismissed the encroacher’s petition, and the authoritative bid is awaited. Encroachments connected approved OSR lands are being reviewed and removed zone-wise, with 14 cleared this year. In Ward 52 (E.V. Ramasamy Periyar Nagar), backstage fencing has been removed, a announcement committee installed, and last notices issued to 2 encroaching spot owners, with enactment to region the encroachments nether way.
