BMC starts demolishing Ulhasnagar

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun demolitions in Ulhasnagar area in Mumbai. It would be targeting nearly 855 illegal buildings, despite Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's promise to regularise these buildings.

According to sources, the first building to face the bulldozer is Neelkamal Apartments. 600 members of the Mumbai Police, and State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) are present on the main streets of Ulhasnagar.

The Supreme Court had declined to consider the petitions seeking a stay on the ongoing demolitions of unauthorised constructions at Ulhasnagar in December 2005.

And, on January 25, 2006 the Supreme Court had stayed the demolitions for an 18-month period.

The petitioners had approached the apex court and filed the petition against the Bombay High Court judgement that ordered the demolition of all types of unauthorized constructions in the town.

However, the Bombay High Court had criticized the Maharashtra Government for stalling demolitions in Ulhasnagar earlier in January 2006.

To maintain law and order situation in the city, the Maharashtra Government had said that the township needed tobe regularized.

According to the government's decision, the structures could be regularised by paying a certain fine and development charges. It also promised to set up a special authority to bring the culprits responsible for the illegal construction to book.

The corporation elections are scheduled for February this year, and the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation would not be getting support from any political quarters this time.

As per reports, 855 illegal buildings were constructed under the contravention of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act and the 1991 Development Control Regulations. (ANI)

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