NAGPUR: A chaos-like situation was created at Shanti Nagar in Satranjipura Zone when the anti-encroachment squad of Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) enforcement department reached there along with police force on Thursday.
Five residents of NV Colony at Shanti Nagar had constructed illegal toilets on the severage line thus obstructing the normal flow of the lines. The maintenance of severage lines had also become difficult due to these toilets. ON getting information about this, the NMC Zone office had issued notices to the property owners but the illegal toilets were not removed. The NMC squad therefore took action and demolished the toilets on Thursday.
At the same time, another squads of the enforcement department removed encroachment from footpaths in Hanuman Nagar and Laxmi Nagar zones. In Hanuman Nagar zone, the squad moved from Tukdoji Putla Square to Manewada Square and then to Uday Nagar Chowk, Mhalgi Nagar Chowk and Ashirvad Nagar Chowk and cleared encroachment from footpaths on both sides of the roads.
In Laxmi Nagar zone, the NMC squad cleared the footpaths at Laxmi Nagar Chowk, Mate Chowk, Pratap Nagar Chowk, Orange City Hospital Chowk, Dev Nagar and Aath-Rasta Chowk.
