About one third of government land is being encroached and grabbed as well, which comes to the tune of 41, 303 acres and is worth about Rupees 1.03 lakh crores. Mr. Ramaswamy who heads the joint committee of legislature comprising of 17 members which was appointed with the sole objective of unearthing the land encroachments in Bangalore and adjacent areas in 2006 and 2007 opined that the value of the land encroached is actually worth Rupees 1.03 lakh crores. There have been protesters for this land encroachment led by freedom fighter Mr. H. S. Doreswamy which has gained some momentum for which the government has also decided to appoint two Deputy Commissioners which is in addition to an already existing one which will accentuate the process of recovering the encroached land of the Bangalore Urban District.
This was decided by the Chief Minister Mr. Siddaramaiah who was the chair-person of a high level meeting for the review of the implementation of the committee headed by Mr. A. T. Ramaswamy on government land encroachment.
The Law and Parliamentary affairs minister Mr. T. B. Jayachandra said about 34, 000 acres of government land has been encroached in Bangalore Urban District alone. The encroached land includes lakes and grazing lands as well. The instructions will be duly issued to the Deputy Commissioners to demolish the buildings that have been illegally constructed and recover such lands.
The bigger land grabbers with encroachments being 50 to 200 acres will be given the highest priority to recover the lands from them. The deputy commissioners will be instructed to act against these big land encroachers. The government announced that action would be taken against the officials if it was found that they acted in favour of the land encroachers.
It was decided by the state government to get rid of the post of Special Deputy Commissioner as there were allegations that there had been a disposal of 8, 000 cases related to land disputes with allegations of showing extra favour to land grabbers. Such cases would be unearthed and reviewed and appropriate action against concerned officials would be initiated if found guilty of favouring land encroachers. Following all these developments, the hunger strike launched by many social organizations under the leadership of freedom fighter Mr. H.S. Doreswamy for the demand of the implementation of the report submitted by A.T. Ramaswamy was withdrawn on Wednesday.
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