Dedicated police team to assist civic body, HSVP: DC

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, August 20

Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh today said the district administration had constituted a dedicated police team to assist the Municipal Corporation and the Haryana Shahri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) in their anti-encroachment drives.

He was presiding over a meeting over the issue of encroachment and illegal structures on the government land, at his office.

The Deputy Commissioner strictly instructed MC and HSVP officials to ensure that vendors and hawkers don’t reoccupy encroachment-free areas in the district.

It is often seen that though the authorities take up eviction drives to free roadsides, pavements and market areas, encroachers reappear after some time in the absence of regular action.

He also issued directions to identify those who assist in illegal slum settlements and register FIR against them.

Singh asked officials of the Panchkula Municipal Corporation, HSVP and the Kalka Municipal Council to submit their planned schedule by the last week of this month for encroachment drives to be conducted in their respective areas in the month of September so that adequate police force is deployed to assist them.

He told the civic body officials to remove temporary markets that came up in Sector 19, 20 and 26 and submit an action-taken report to his office in a week. He also asked officials concerned to maintain records of offenders.

Among those present in the meeting included HSVP Estate Officer Mamta Sharma, Deputy Municipal Commissioner Deepak Sura and ACP Umed Singh.