Jamshedpur : The district administration and civic body, Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) on Monday embarked on a massive anti-encroachment drive cleared the Sakchi Market of congestion by removing several road-side illegal constructions and kiosks.
The drive was targeted at anti-social elements to keep them at bay and curb activities of crime and eve teasing.
The kind of shops which faced the eviction axe included vegetable shops, fruit shops, tea stalls, snacks corner, hair-cutting salon and furniture shops. Experts feel that the city has not expanded horizontally, as a result of which a major chunk of the population continues to remain concentrated in a 5-km radius.
Along the Howrah Bridge on the Kalimati Road the team removed clusters of shops and kiosks. The drive was also carried near Jubilee Park’s Sakchi gate and the favorite tea stall near DC office was also removed.
According to district officials, they would ensure that the market place is cleared of any type of encroachments including the manner in which the shopkeepers had extended their shops.
Encroachments in the city are omnipresent and thriving, much to the discomfort of the ordinary citizen. The city is known for the encroachments which blot the urban landscape.
An official said the vendors and kiosks were seized from the places from where the administration had received complaints that anti-social elements used to consume liquor sitting there and also indulge in eve-teasing. �We cannot comprise with the safety of market place.
Moreover , people also find it inconvenience to move into the market freely with the passages getting choked due to the make-shift shops,” he said.
According to him , they would ensure that the market place is cleared of any type of encroachments including the manner in which the shopkeepers had extended their shops.
Most of the shop-owners and owners of wayside hotel had removed the valuables before the demolition squad arrived there, but those ignored the squad had to face the ire of the administration.
