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Delhi-Mumbai expressway Illegal Construction: All 145 illegal constructions including showrooms, houses, shops built along the Agra-Gurugram canal from BPTP bridge to Sector-8 Sarvodaya intersection along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be demolished, jagran.com reported. This action will be taken jointly by Haryana Urban Development Authority and Irrigation Department.

The authority will likely carry out the demolition from July 8 to 18. Approval of higher officials has been taken in this regard. Three duty magistrates have been appointed. People have been given time till July 8 to vacate their houses, shops and showrooms.

The area belongs to Baroli village. This construction begins from BPTP Chowk and goes up to Sector-8 Sarvodaya Chowk. These constructions include multi-storey showrooms, other shops and houses.

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During the construction of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, these constructions became a hindrance in the route alignment. At that time, the administrator of the authority was Pradeep Dahiya. He had made full preparations to demolish all the constructions.

The Baroli villagers had gone to the Union Minister of State Krishnapal Gurjar for this matter.
An elevated bridge was built to save the illegal construction. The alignment of the expressway was changed so that illegal constructions are not demolished.

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An elevated bridge was built from Sector-17 bridge to Sarvodaya Chowk so that illegal constructions are not demolished. For this, the green belt towards the sectors was destroyed. Thousands of trees were sacrificed. Former NIT MLA Neeraj Sharma raised this issue in the assembly but nothing could be done due to vote bank politics. Even today, rent in lakhs is coming from illegally constructed showrooms and shops.

“Illegal constructions along the expressway have been identified. Their number is around 145. All of them will be demolished. Public announcements are being made to warn all builders to take away their belongings. Demolition is going to happen soon,” said Rajpal, Survey SDO, Authority.