Mumbai civic body removes 1,400 huts on govt plot in Mankhurd

Mumbai, Apr 8 (PTI) Around 1,400 unauthorised huts were demolished in the Mankhurd area of Mumbai in a joint drive by the city civic body and the administration on Wednesday, freeing a government plot at the erstwhile Bombay Soap Factory site, officials said.

The drive was implemented by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the Mumbai Suburban Collector’s office.

The BMC stated that the eviction was carried out along the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road under the provisions of Section 50 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, following directions from the Additional Collector (Encroachment Removal), eastern suburbs.

The squatters had encroached upon around 22-acre land owned by the government along the key link road in Mankhurd.

The operation

was undertaken by the BMC’s M-East ward. Civic teams, including officials from the building and factory department, and police personnel, were deployed for the exercise, the release said.

It added that around 200 labourers and heavy machinery, including three Poclain machines, seven JCBs, ten dumpers, and two drone cameras, were deployed. PTI KK NSK