The
Hindu: Chennai: Tuesday, 23 June 2015.
The roads
have become narrow and the ‘reserved space’ has been encroached upon, allege
the residents.
Residents of
High Court Colony (South) are a worried lot: what they had not even imagined
has happened: their residential layout, created by the Madras High Court, has
been encroached upon.
The layout on
CTH Road, Villivakkam, was formed bearing Survey nos. 237 and 238 for the court
staff on the order of the Madras High Court in 1949. As per the original plan,
the well-laid housing plots had broad streets and space reserved for parks. But
today the roads have become narrow and the ‘reserved space’ has been encroached
upon, allege the residents. S. Srinivasan, a resident of the colony, complained
that a building itself has been constructed on the road, which previously
linked the Thirunagar Colony, and a huge space that was designated as
‘Reserved’ has been encroached upon with several commercial buildings having
come up there.
For several
years, Mr. Srinivasan has been knocking on the doors of the Chennai
Corporation, the Revenue Department and the Chennai Metropolitan Development
Authority (CMDA) seeking action against the encroachers. He has also petitioned
through RTI seeking plan sanction documents of the buildings constructed in
encroached space. “But the authorities of the CMDA, the Revenue department and
the civic body have either not provided any reply to the RTI or have responded
about the lack of documents,” he complained.
Another
resident of 1st Cross Street, on condition of anonymity, citing the
encroachments in the survey numbers, alleged that the authorities have not
taken any steps to prevent or remove encroachments.
The residents
have only one request conducting a survey of the colony by the Revenue
department.
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