TNCL pulls down shops
Source: Hueiyen News Service / R Lester Makang
Ukhrul, April 13 2015 :
In an alleged public land encroachment case, Tangkhul Naga Contractor Long (TNCL), Ukhrul District Monday pulled down a row of shops to recover the encroached 'Permit Plot' inside the PWD Office Complex at Phungreitang Bazaar in the heart of Ukhrul Town.
Around 11 am, TNCL engaged a bulldozer and knocked down a row of commercial and other structures standing inside the PWD Office Complex which touches the town's main road on the West side.
Speaking to reporters, TNCL members said that the commercial structures were demolished to give way for the construction of its office cum public canteen for which the plot was allotted to TNCL as permit plot by PWD Department, Ukhrul in 1979.TNCL said it could not set up the facilities for a long time during which certain private party had been occupying the plot.
"But this cannot be allowed because the public plot cannot be privatized under any circumstances, " the TNCL members said.