- The action plan submitted to the High Court is in its final phase
- The encroachment eviction process should be completed within 70 days
- Submission of information on encroachment of 140 lakes by BBMP
Tahsildars who have not issued orders from last three months; The order of the Chief Commissioner is also negligible
LAKE encroachment CLEARANCE TIME EXPIRED !
Kere Manjunath ಕೆರೆ ಮಂಜುನಾಥ್
Bengaluru: Even though BBMP has been filing for 14 weeks to clear encroachment of lakes, not a single order has been issued by Tehsildars for the clearance operation.
As per the action plan submitted to the High Court, the BBMP is submitting the information about the lakes to the Tehsildar from September 5. Every week the information of 10 lakes is being submitted by the Executive Engineers of the Lakes Division to the respective Tehsildars.
As per the action plan, the encroachment clearing process of 159 lakes should start in 16 weeks. BBMP officials have to submit encroachment information of 159 lakes in 16 weeks to tehsildars like 10 lakes every week. As such, a list of 140 lakes for 14 weeks has been submitted so far.
It has been 90 days since the first week of encroachment information was submitted. It has been 70 days since the submission of information for the second week and the third week. At least 30 lakes should have been completely cleared of encroachment after all the process was completed. However, the Tahsildars have not started the process of ordering the eviction of encroachments.
As per the action plan submitted to the High Court, information on 10 lakes has been provided by BBMP every week. The 16-week process will be completed in two weeks. However, till now we have not received any order from the tehsildars to clear the encroachment of the lakes,' said officials of the BBMP lake department.
BBMP Chief Commissioner Tushar Girinath held a meeting with District Commissioner Dayanand and Tehsildars and warned that the order processes for clearing the encroachment of lake and Raj canal should be completed within the period. Officials said that even after this, there was no process of inquiry or order for eviction operation by the tehsildars.
It is said that a survey of some lakes in Yalahanka and Dasarahalli zone has been conducted. However, no official order or information has come to the BBMP from the Tahsildar offices.
They say that the lack of staff for the survey is a sign of stress. There is shortage of staff in all departments. There are only 15 personnel in the BBMP Lakes Division, which is responsible for around 200 lakes. Aren't we doing all the work too? Don't we have pressure? If the action plan does not work, the High Court will take us to task. Are we not under pressure,' asked the engineers.
Protection for land grabbers: Although the High Court has instructed to clear the encroachment of lakes under BBMP, there is delay at the level of Tehsildars. following a slow pace in order to allow land grabbers, Environmental activist T.E. Srinivas complained.
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We have already measured all the lakes. District Commissioner Dayanand responded by saying, "Now we just need to demarcate the encroachments."
The process is not going on as per the action plan as ordered by the High Court. Dayanand did not answer the question why there is no eviction order even after three months.
All lakes need a nodal officer.
Citizens have raised objections about not appointing nodal officers for lakes that require maintenance and supervision under the jurisdiction of BBMP. They have complained that officials have not been appointed for some lakes to accommodate the encroachment.
There is a list of encroachments in 159 lakes in the city in the action plan submitted by BBMP to the High Court. However, nodal officers have not been appointed for all these lakes,' complained Goudaiah, an environmental activist.
Nodal officers have not been appointed for 19 lakes including Hoskerehalli lake, Karihobanahalli, Kannalli, Chikkabellandur, Dodda Bidarakallu, Narsappanahalli, Nelegedaranahalli, Lakshmipur, where the road was built between the lakes. He demanded that officers should be appointed to oversee all the lakes under the jurisdiction of BBMP.
Nodal officers have been appointed for 140 lakes on the advice of local executive engineers for developed and required lakes. It is not final, there is room for revision. Efforts will be made to appoint nodal officers for all the lakes, said officials of the lakes department.
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