By Express News Service
CUTTACK: Days after being elected deputy mayor of Cuttack, Damayanti Majhi faces eviction warmth with the Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) issuing discover in opposition to unauthorised constructions at Balisahi slum in Jagatpur space underneath ward no 49 of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC).
Damayanti stays in the identical slum together with her mom. Sources mentioned after her appointment as deputy mayor, a pucca home with a boundary wall is being constructed for her within the slum. Following this, another neighbours too have began increasing their encroached premises. Around 50 households are residing within the slum for the final a number of years.
IDCO has now put up an eviction discover on the partitions of their homes together with Majhi’s a few days again. As many as six to seven households together with Damayanti have been requested to take away the unlawful constructions by May 10. The eviction will facilitate the development of a drain to unravel the persistent waterlogging downside of the Jagatpur Industrial Estate.
“The land where the slum exists belongs to IDCO. Due to growing encroachment, we have not been able to provide basic facilitates to MSME units here. Some of the residents have grabbed acres of land, while some others have even rented out the encroached land to third parties,” mentioned IDCO divisional head Parikhita Mahalik.
‘We have issued eviction notice to 143 persons including Damayanti’s mom to get better the encroached land for developmental works together with building of drainage and sewerage system, staff’ hostel each for female and male, liquid waste therapy plant, merchandising zone, and so on.,’ he mentioned.
CMC dy mayor will get IDCO’s eviction discover
If the encroachers fail to vacate the encroached land inside May 10, then ID CO will probably be compelled to take away the unlawful building and encroachments, he added. “After the eviction, we will construct a boundary wall to restrict trespassers. Apart from this, it has been also planned to deploy Odisha Industrial Security Force (OISF) like (CISF) on the entry and exit points,” Mahalik mentioned.
Mayor Subhash Singh, in the meantime, mentioned 1 / 4 was allotted to Damayanti, however she wished to reside within the slum. He mentioned he has held a dialogue with IDCO authorities to hold out the drain work by exempting the deputy mayor’s home. “There is not any probability of eviction of any slum with out the consent of CMC because the civic physique is the enforcement company.
First, we’ll maintain a dialogue with the slum dwellers about their relocation and rehabilitation after which the method of eviction will probably be taken up,” mentioned Singh. While the deputy mayor didn’t give any feedback on the problem, CMC Commissioner Ananya Das mentioned that IDCO as per its common drive has issued a discover for the event of its space. However, IDCO has not knowledgeable CMC about it, Das mentioned including she would look into the matter.
