CMC allocates sites in the middle of road, residents protest

CMC allocates sites in the middle of road, residents protest
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: If the site owners at this place go ahead with their construction work, 150 plus houses have to communicate with the rest of city in merely five-feet wide road.

Thanks to the City Municipal Council (CMC) of Rajarajeswarinagar which has allotted sites bang in the middle of 25-feet wide road.

This absurdity was exposed at Jnanaganganagar of Ward no 13 under CMC, when site owner went ahead with clearing the road by cutting young trees. The residents here have lodged a complaint in the CMC office accusing the authority for allotting site on the road and cutting four 10-year-old trees.

The layout was formed a decade ago, and the roads here are yet to tarred. Since, the construction will narrow the present size of the road further, residents on Tuesday protested in front of CMC office.

C M Gopal, President of Jnanaganganagar Resident’s Welfare Association, said that a complaint has been registered against the owners. “Many residents have paid extra amount to acquire corner sites. Land grabbing has become an uninterrupted menace in the area and the authorities are sitting blind folded,” he said.

However, when contacted Councillor M Lalitha Ramu, she said that there was no question of building any structure on the road, but refused to comment on who permitted the plots on roads. “The road was planned eight years ago and water pipe-lines were also laid. We will not disturb the road,” she said.