Bhubaneswar:29/7/17: In a drive to free the city from encroachers, the Joint Eviction Team of the Central Eviction Monitoring Cell (CEMC) comprising personnel from Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) bulldozed the unauthorised encroachments along public road leading from Odisha Blind Association to PHEO Office near Hotel Hindustan International (HHI) via Text Book Press, in Unit-III.
The unauthorised structures that had come up over the drains were hindering the natural drainage outlets of rain water. So the exercise to evict the squatters was undertaken In Kharvel Nagar area of the city. During the exercise six tin sheet extensions, eight wooden cabins and 12 numbers of shops of the scrap dealers. One excavator from BMC was engaged in the drive.