Thoothukudi Corporation resumes anti-encroachment drive after long break
Thoothukudi Corporation has restarted its anti-encroachment operations after receiving numerous public complaints. The encroachment has narrowed busy roads and occupied pedestrian spaces, prompting the need for action. The drive will continue weekly, allowing residents to report further encroachments.
- ▪The anti-encroachment drive resumed after a long break due to public complaints.
- ▪Many roads in Thoothukudi have been narrowed by encroachers with illegal structures.
- ▪On the first day of the resumed drive, 63 illegal structures were removed along Bryant Nagar main road.
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After a long break, Thoothukudi Corporation resumed anti-encroachment operation on Wednesday following hundreds of complaints from the public.Most of the busy roads of this port town have been narrowed down by encroachers, who have occupied the pedestrian space and roads with their permanent and temporary structures, and consequently hundreds of complaints are made by the publicEven after Mayor Jegan Periyasamy had issued several warnings in the past against the encroachers, illegal structures continue to crop up along the roads and the streets in the form of commercial banners and boards, car sheds, ramps etc.
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