Greater than 200 buildings have been razed thus far on the Gandhvi fishing harbour close to the well-known Harsiddhi temple in Devbhumi Dwarka district because the state authorities’s demolition drive continued for the second day Sunday, mentioned authorities.
The district administration had begun the mega demolition drive within the fishing harbour in Kalyanpur taluka Saturday, round two weeks after the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom disposed of a petition. As many as 69 fishermen of Gandhvi and 122 from the close by Navadra had petitioned the HC looking for regularisation of their properties constructed on the federal government land after income officers of Devbhumi Dwarka served them notices in January asking them to vacate the premises and demolish them.
Within the notices, the federal government had mentioned the homes had been encroachments on authorities land.
Sources within the income division mentioned 102 buildings had been demolished in Gandhvi Saturday and encroachment was thus faraway from 3.70 lakh sq. ft of land (sqft). On Sunday, 137 extra buildings had been razed, clearing one other 5.10 sqft land. “A majority of the buildings demolished
included residential premises, just a few business institutions and a handful of spiritual buildings as effectively,” mentioned an officer.
These unauthorised buildings had been constructed on the federal government land often known as Harshad Bandar or Harshad Harbour within the Mendha creek close to the shrine of goddess Harsiddhi, mentioned sources. “These homes, godowns, and so on had been situated very a lot alongside the seacoast and can be utilized as a touchdown level for unlawful smuggling similar to that of narcotic medication,” the Devbhumi Dwarka SP mentioned.
“The police deployment continues to pre-empt any untoward incident,” Nitish Pandey, Superintendent of Police (SP), of Devbhumi Dwarka informed The Indian Specific, including, “Round 800 police personnel, together with two corporations of the SRP (state reserve police) have been deployed within the harbour.”
That is the second main demolition drive alongside the Devbhumi Dwarka coast in about three months.
In October final 12 months, the federal government undertook a serious demolition drive and razed just a few hundred buildings in Guess Dwarka, an island off the Okha coast on which Dwarkadhish Mukhya Mandir, a shrine of Lord Krishna is situated.
Gandhvi has a inhabitants of round 3000, largely fishermen. Of their petition to the HC, the fishermen had sought course to the state authorities to regularise their properties beneath a 1981 round of the state authorities which offers for “gamtal” to fishermen residing in huts alongside the seacoast.
Nevertheless, after the state authorities argued that the buildings posed a risk to nationwide safety and cited two letters from the Further Director of Common of Police (Intelligence), the petitioner submitted within the court docket that they didn’t wish to press their case of regularisation of their buildings.
The HC disposed of the matter after the federal government assured that the affected households might be rehabilitated based on present insurance policies of the federal government, paving the way in which for the demolition.
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