Re-demarcate 100m area around IAF station, AIT told
Neeraj Bagga
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, January 19
In the wake of the Pathankot terror attack, officials of the Air Force station, situated on the Ajnala road, has written the Amritsar Improvement Trust (AIT) to re-demarcate the 100-meter area from their boundary wall to identify illegal constructions.
Many illegal residential and commercial dwellings have come up around the Air Force station in the past few years.
The development has sent plot holders in the 97-acre scheme of the Ranjit Avenue area, unveiled by the AIT in 2011, in a tizzy. Many of the plot holders have raised their dwellings on these.
AIT Chairman Sandeep Rishi, confirming the development, said a board comprising officials drawn from the Air Force and the district administration would be constituted.
“This board will identify plots and buildings falling in the 100-m radium of the Air Force station,” he said.
Rishi said as per the Union Government notification, issued in 2007, the area falling under the 100-meter radius of the Air Force station was demarcated.
A joint team of the Air Force and the district administration had then identified the limit of 100-meter periphery of the station up to its boundary wall.
He said he would write to the government to compensate those persons whose plots come under the area.
