Corporation gets 3 months to remove encroachments near Nungambakkam tennis stadium
Posted on: 17/Jul/2015 11:17:21 AM
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed by S.A. Ahmed, wherein he wants the illegal encroachments and semi permanent structures removed along Tank Bund Road along the tennis stadium in Nungambakkam. The Madras High Court’s first bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam have given the Corporation of Chennai 3 months’ time to act on the same.
The PIL said, ‘These encroachments have choked pedestrian and vehicular movements on School Road up to Pushpa Nagar Main Road in Nungambakkam.. Several international tennis events are conducted at the stadium... More than 150 illegal structures had been erected on the road leading to the venue. Encroaches have built a temple, and constructed even semi-permanent structures on the pavement with an objective of retaining the land.’
Responding to this, the first bench has said, ‘We would like to know who was responsible for permitting such constructions, looking the other way, for which necessary departmental inquiry be held, responsibility fixed and disciplinary proceedings initiated. It will form part of the report on the steps taken, along with compliance report... In a nutshell, what is pleaded is that there is considerable congestion, and the only way to ease the position is to remove the encroachments.’
