In what should come as welcome news to many civic activists, an unauthorised shed is being demolished today by the BBMP (Jakkasandra ward) with the help of the cops on 14th Main near Greenview Hospital in Sector 5, HSR Layout. “The people should shiver before they think of building anything without BBMP’s plan sanction,” said one BBMP official. In addition, the building was being built in the Agara Lake buffer zone specified by the National Green Tribunal.
According to the National Green Tribunal, no structures can come up between 30 and 75 metres of Rajakaluves (major stormwater drains). If they are already constructed before May 2015 but uninhabited, such houses are not to be occupied without the prior permission of the court, and in any event, not until the commissioning of the sewage treatment plants to prevent the generations more sewage.
In a letter dated January 16, 2018, the BBMP asked the land owner Nitya Muralidharan to demolish the building that was encroaching the buffer zone and being built without the plan sanction from the BBMP. However, when no action was taken, the BBMP took the help of the police force and is demolishing it today.
