New Parks in Coimbatore

Q: I heard there were a number of parks going to be built here in Coimbatore. What’s the status on that?

Revathy N., Coimbatore

23rd July 2014

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Yeah, you must have heard of the Mint Homes controversy? Yeah, even that was built on a reserve site. Its in Sowripalayam, the builder just went and constructed a swimming pool, a clubhouse and a sewage treatment plant on this site, without any permission. So obviously the corporation had to destroy it. Another good thing the corporation is doing is they are trying to get the residential welfare associations and some voluntary groups to help in the whole turning the reserve sites into parks project. The meetings have been done with few months back, but I don’t think the project has yet started.

Satyanathan Kumar, Coimbatore

25th July 2014

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Yeah, I was one of those who complained actually. And you’re right, it took the corporation about a year to sit up and take notice. Normally 10% of the total area of a layout of a city has to be handed over to the municipality as a reserve site. Last I heard the corporation had taken steps against 15 such cases of land encroachments by simply demolishing whatever constructions there were on these sites, and then reclaiming the land.

Sandeep Krishna, Coimbatore

25th July 2014

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Last time I heard, they had completed inspecting all the 20 wards in the south, east and central zone, and were hoping to have done with the ones in the west and north zones by mid July. The deputy commissioner of the city’s municipal corporation himself has said that they are going to be taking strict action against the encroachers. I don’t know how long this will take, because these encroachments have been happening for a long time, and the residents have also been complaining quite a lot. In fact its been almost a year in many of these cases of encroachments.

Chetan Reddy, Coimbatore

24th July 2014

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I know of a number of places which were allotted for the construction of parks in the city. But what has happened is that most of these lands have been illegally encroached upon. So now the Coimbatore Corporation have gone on this massive project to get rid of all these illegal structures that have cropped over all over these lands set aside for the parks. Currently they are conducting a drive to identify all such park allotted areas in the city which have been illegally encroached upon. I’d also love to know something more about this, does anybody know?

N Jeeva kumar, Coimbatore

23rd July 2014

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