GURUGRAM: Officials with the enforcement wing of department of town and country planning (DTCP) managed to partly demolish an unauthorised
colony in Sadhrana village amid heavy opposition, mostly by
women protesters, on Thursday.
A team of 12 DTCP officials and over 60 cops from the Sector 10A police station visited the unauthorised colony on Thursday.
The DTCP officials had planned to raze the entire colony, including the fully-constructed and occupied houses. However, the
demolition drive saw
protests from the women and other residents of the area and could not be carried out as planned.
During the demolition drive, 20 damp proof courses and boundary walls of five under-construction structures were razed down. However, residents, mostly women, sat before the houses to prevent the DTCP officials from demolishing them. Women cops had to forcibly lift them up from their positions so that the drive could continue.
The agitation heated up when the DTCP team and police headed for the fully-built houses which were up to four floors high. So, the officials finally decided to suspend the demolition of over six illegal structures.
Narender Kumar, assistant town planner (enforcement), said, “The residents said that if the structures were illegal, why would the
tehsildar register the plots? However, we have been repeatedly telling people that they need to take a no-objection certificate from the DTCP before building any structure. But they still get trapped in these deals of living in unauthorised colonies and believe whatever the local realtor tells them. Earlier, we issued them notices but they overlooked those and thought that no action would be taken.”
Women protesters sat before the houses.
