Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath conducted a comprehensive review of development projects and law and order with police and administrative officials at the Circuit House auditorium on Monday.
The Gandhinagar District Administration, in collaboration with the District Police, launched a large-scale demolition drive early this morning to clear illegal encroachments across multiple areas, including GEB, Pethapur, Charedi, and along the banks of the Sabarmati River.
Promised sweeping anti-encroachment drives have largely become superficial operations, doing little to ease traffic chaos or improve the daily lives of millions, as reported by The Express Tribune.
The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), comprising Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi (Judicial Member) and Dr. Afroz Ahmad (Expert Member), held a hearing in the matter pertaining to illegal encroachments and floodplain management along the Rispana river in Dehradun.
The demolition drive is part of the ongoing effort of the state government to clear illegal structures across the state. In Shravasti itself, 149 illegal structures have been identified, with notices being given to all of them. 140 structures have been sealed, and 37 others have been demolis
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's eviction drive against illegal encroachments escalates with 26 hectares reclaimed in Rengma Reserve Forest. This follows earlier operations freeing land in Biswanath and Uriamghat as part of a sustained state-wide crackdown.
"The Guwahati High Court has delivered a historic judgement. The Chief Justice of Guwahati High Court said that the government should bring a stern regulation to prevent new encroachment. The government should take action against those government officers under whose watch a large-scale encr
The provision, introduced in 2002 to regularise encroachments on government and forest lands, was declared arbitrary and ultra vires to the Constitution.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that all unauthorised occupation of VGR (Village Grazing Reserve), PGR (Professional Grazing Reserve), Satras, Naamghars, forest land, and other public areas would be cleared in a phased manner.
Assam Minister Atul Bora has support the state's eviction drive against illegal encroachments in tribal areas. He said the move, led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, is important to protect tribal land, and praised the CM's visits to districts to monitor the action.
Calling the green felling "environmentally disastrous" and contrary to the principles of ecological conservation. Negi told ANI, "Nowhere in the country is green felling permitted. Eviction of illegal encroachments is being carried out, but cutting decades-old fruit-bearing trees is not just
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that the indigenous people of the state are facing invasion from people from one religion who are now trying to change the demography in Upper Assam.