Issues
Encroachment by shanty dwellers on several stretches along EM Bypass is proving costly for the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). More than 130 acres of prime land, which could be a mega revenue earner for KMDA, are lying unutilised due to encroachment. A major business park project, which would straddle 100 acres in Nonadanga off EM Bypass, is stuck in this encroachment muddle. The water theme park is another big bucks project that has got stuck indefinitely due to encroachment. International Amusement Limited, which had set up Appu Ghar in Delhi, was selected along with Bengal Shrachi Housing Development Limited, to build a water park on a 32-acre site near Ruby hospital. The project cost was pegged at nearly Rs 100 crore and it was supposed to take off by 2006. It looks like the April 2011 assembly elections might be the reason why authorities are going slow on evicting the encroachers. Also in some sections of the press it has been alleged that the KMDA board, ultimately responsible for EM Bypass, is not properly represented as most members are from a particular political party.
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