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SDMC carries out anti-encroachment drive in Najafgarh, West zones
The Hindu
Police personnel have reached areas in South Zone too, while the action in Central Zone was yet to begin, the official said.
Civic authorities on May 11 carried out an anti-encroachment drive in Najafgarh and other areas in South Delhi, as bulldozers continued to roll in the city to carry out the action.
A day earlier, South Corporation had carried out a drive to remove illegal temporary structures and demolish a few brick walls in New Friends Colony.
Meanwhile, a Senior Official said that during South Delhi Municipal Corporation's anti-encroachment drive in New Friends Colony, a tree had got uprooted unintentionally".
Information in this regard was given to the Deputy Conservator of Forests via a letter dated May 10 wherein the SDMC has "assured the forest department to undertake 'compensatory afforestation of 10 number of trees' in lieu of the uprooted tree or take measures as directed by the forest department," the Civic Body said.
On May 11, civic authorities carried out a round of planned anti-encroachment drives in Najafgarh and West Zones of the SDMC, removing temporary structures put up illegally, a senior official said.
As per the plan, action is to be carried out in all four zones of the corporation.
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