Administration tab over religious encroachment

Kundan Pandey, TNN Sep 20, 2012, 05.13PM IST

 

INDORE: Around 1,700 religious structures have been constructed on the government land in Indore district. The interesting fact surfaced in the recent District administration survey which is supposed to trace many more such encroachments.

The district administration found that around 1250 such construction in Indore city, which is maximum compared to other parts of the district. Apart from these encroachments, around 736 structures constructed on the land of the Indore Municipal Corporation and around 545 have been constructed on government land coming under district administration.

After tracing such large number of encroachment, now the officials of district administration have begun effort to know, how many such structures have been constructed after the Apex Court's ruling in 2010 in which the court banned the misuse of government land for religious structures.

In its ruling given on September, 13, 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that district collectors of all the districts of India should keep tab over the development and ensure that no government land should be encroached for construction of religious structures.

In that ruling, the Apex court also said that chief secretaries of the state should submit a detailed report regarding the religious structures on government land after every three months.

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