MUMBAI: The city's small but determined team of eco-warriors tasted victory on Tuesday when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC) heeded their demands and demolished a 2,000-sq ft gala (godown) at Ganpat Patil Nagar in Dahisar. Illegal shops and commercial establishments have mushroomed in the area and are slowly encroaching upon huge swathes of mangrove adjoining Gorai creek in Dahisar.
Assistant civic commissioner Parag Masurkar said that 22 commercial structures, that have come up illegally on land that falls in the coastal regulation zone (CRZ), on the Link Road had been served notices.
However, the owners of these structures got a stay from the civil court. "As soon we get the stay vacated, we will commence demolition," said Rajesh Akhre, sub engineer (building and factory). "Most of the structures came up as recently as 2007," said Akhre, who was in charge of the demolition on Tuesday.
Harish Pandey, member of the I C Colony New Link Road Residents' Association, said, "All the structures here are illegal and have come up using forged documents." The association members filed an RTI query and found out that documents submitted by owners of some of the structures show that their buildings came up as early as 1977. "How can this be possible when the entire area was a verdant mangrove jungle in 1977," he asked. Ganpat Patil Nagar has as many as 8,000 illegal tenements.
Source: Times Of India, 8-9-2010
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