Anti-encroachment drive continues on Day 2 in Amritsar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 27

The Estate Wing of the Amritsar Municipal Corporation continued their anti-encroachment drive on the second consecutive day today and removed encroachments on city roads.

Estate Officer Dharminderjit Singh said around five major encroachments were removed from city roads and belongings of the encroachers were seized and deposited in the stores of the MC.

The permanent illegal encroachments in the corridors on Madan Mohan Malviya Road were removed during the drive. The Estate Officer stated that illegally erected barricades in the corridors were also demolished.

Shopkeepers were instructed to keep their goods inside their shops and not to use the verandas for their own use. The officer appealed to the city dwellers not to occupy government land, sidewalks, footpath outside shops and verandas.