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| MC allows illegal construction next to Mehjoor Nagar bridge, blocks road widening | | Locals seeks LG’s intervention | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 4: With no let up in complaints against the Srinagar Municipal Corporation for allowing large scale construction of illegal commercial complexes in the summer capital, in the latest, the SMC has been accused of allowing a mega commercial complex come up next to the new Mehjoor Nagar bridge thereby ending chances of any prospective road widening in the busy area.
After the construction of the new bridge at Mehjoor Nagar along the flood spill channel here, the road was scheduled to be widened towards the Mehjoor Nagar locality said.
But the SMC has allowed commercial complex to come up just next to the bridge with no space left for proposed road widening.
Officials said the SMC had granted building permission for a small two storey house away from the road but that the same has been misused to erect mega commercial complex next to the bridge.
“Some of the senior officials took Nazrana for allowing this commercial complex to come up and this is why the SMC has been silent,” said an SMC official on the condition of anonymity.
The official admitted that complex was coming up in violation of the Master Plan and that it has left no scope for road widening. “The structure had to come up sixty feet away from the road but the same is coming up just next to the road,” he added.
A senior official in the Traffic Police said the civil administration should visit the spot to see how such violations are being allowed.
When contacted a senior SMC official tried to downplay the matter saying “such things keep happening.”
“Such violations can be regularized and so why should media poke its nose in every construction,” the official said on the condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile the Mehjoor Nagar locals have appealed the Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu to order an inquiry into the matter.
“If an inquiry is ordered it will be proven that the structure is coming up on government land,” the locals claimed.
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