Follow Us on Google News Guwahati, July 29 (IANS) The state administration in Assam’s Golaghat district has launched a large-scale eviction drive on Tuesday to clear at least 11,000 bighas of encroached land, officials said. Huge security arrangements are placed in the Rengma Reserve forest at Uriamghat, bordering Nagaland where the eviction drive is being … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Guwahati, July 18 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday claimed that illegal land encroachments across the state are part of a deliberate and systematic pattern, with people arriving from as far as Manipur and even Bangladesh to occupy forest and government land. Reiterating his government’s zero-tolerance approach, … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Hyderabad, July 11 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao has questioned the alleged silence of BJP over encroachment of land belonging to Seetha Ramachandra Swamy temple of Telangana’s Bhadrachalam. The BRS leader took to the social media platform ‘X’ on Friday to question the BJP’s … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Member of Parliament from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk constituency Praveen Khandelwal on Thursday directed municipal officials to remove encroachments in Chawri Bazar and Deendayal Upadhyay Park on Mata Sundari Road. During his visit to Mata Sundari Road, near the gate of Lok Nayak Hospital, the MP … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday promised a special drive to remove encroachment within the Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) campus and assured of an early makeover for student hostels. “We are fully committed to ensuring that every student in Delhi receives a secure … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Guwahati, June 8 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to tackling the widespread issue of land encroachment, calling the ongoing effort “monumental in scope.” Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Sarma also raised concerns about a “politically motivated demographic transformation” he believes threatens the … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Ahmedabad, May 3 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has cleared nearly 1.5 lakh square metres of government land around the Chandola Lake in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad within just two days, officials said. The operation, involving the demolition of around 4,000 slums and unauthorised structures, marks one of the largest anti-encroachment … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, Apr 25 (IANS) The Centre, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, said that it brought amendments to the Waqf Act, 1995, to prevent abuse of waqf legislation which resulted in the encroachment of government properties, apart from ensuring that the Waqf Boards in the country are … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Gurugram, April 12 (IANS) Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG) started a special cleanliness campaign on Saturday with an objective of making the key roads of the city encroachment-free, and planting trees for environmental protection. MCG Commissioner Ashok Kumar Garg, along with officials, started this special campaign from Iffco Chowk, Millennium City … Read more