Hubli

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Presentation on Massive demolition drive in
Hubli - Dharwad
Hubli Dharwad Municipal Corporation
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A brief background

• Population 8.5 lakhs
• Has to monitor 3000 new constructions every year
• Maintains 580 km of roads
• No. of city buses 91 ( 1151 trips a day )
• 2 Wheelers
• 3 Wheelers
• 4 Wheelers
• Expenditure ( 2003-04 ) 43.6 crore
• Staff strength 2600

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What was the necessity

• Violations of building laws - More than 50
  Bldgs.
• Public inconvenience - No parking space, footpath
  encroachment
• Major roads and streets are encroached upon by
  the Dabba Shops and petty vendors.
• Drains were encroached resulted in flooding
  during rains
• Large no of two wheelers, autos, tippers, cars
  and trucks
• Mixed traffic condition
• Absence of bypass roads ( from Gadag Bijapur )
• Increase in the numbers of accidents and deaths
  in fringe areas
• Complaints from citizens

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Photographs showing the inconvenience being
caused to the public due to the encroachments,
absence of footpaths parking places
Footpath encroachment
No parking place
Footpath encroachment
Conflicts between vehicles pedestrians
No proper parking place
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Expedition for scheduling this drive

• Honble Supreme Court of Indias directions to
  identify Hawking Non-Hawking zones and allow
  regulated vending.
• Gherzi India Report by KUIDFC which has listed
  the roads and streets, where the encroachment
  shall be removed.
• Joint inspection by HDMC Hubli-Dharwad Police
  Department for identification of hawking and
  non-hawking.
• Formation of City Infrastructure Improvement
  Committee (CIIC) under the chairmanship of The
  Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Commissioner,
  HDMC as Member secretary.
• 1st CIICs meeting on 10th 11th June 05 by The
  Honble District Minister and The Deputy
  Commissioner, Dharwad during which the need for
  removal of encroachments in the major streets was
  discussed and HDMC was directed to go ahead with
  the removal of encroachments.
• Traffic review meeting by Hubli-Dharwad Police
  Commissioner during which, roads were identified
  for immediate removal of encroachments for smooth
  flow of traffic.
• Thus from all these deliberations, the roads are
  identified for removal of encroachment and
  planned meticulously for widening streamlining
  the traffic once for all and also ensured that,
  open drains are cleaned and the health hazard
  will cease to exist.

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Bottom line

• It was decided to take-up two major issues
• Removal of encroachments on footpaths roads
• Sealing of buildings without CC

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Planning

• Builders meet
• Public awareness campaign
• warning to defaulters for rectification of
  violations
• Divided the operation into phases for a period of
  30 days
• The idea to provide breaks in between was
  primarily
• to allow the offenders to remove the illegal
  constructions voluntarily to avoid excessive
  damage to their buildings.
• also a ceaseless campaign is likely to affect
  trade in the town, besides causing inconvenience
  to the public.
• therefore HDMC decided to have the campaign only
  on weekends.
• Assistance from Police, RPF, HESCOM, Water Board,
  BSNL
• Formation of 8 demolition squads lead by HDMC Sr.
  Officers.
• Each squad supported by platoon circle
  inspector his team
• Minute planning

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First phase Minute Planning
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Start

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End of phase one

• 1000 illegal structures razed to the ground
• 100 buildings without CC were sealed
• Approx. expenditure incurred Rs. 3.5 lakhs
• Appreciation by citizens
• Credibility of the HDMC went up

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Immediate steps

• Planning for second and third phase
• Identification of Hawking Zones
• Demarcation of space for KIOSKS Type A, B, C
• Construction of footpaths where encroachments
  have been removed
• Construction of medians
• Issue of CC for defaulters
• Installation of cat eyes by police departments
• Implementation of Road Development Project under
  Rs. 30 Crore

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Strategies for stopping future violations

• Follow up and effective monitoring
• Affidavit Criminal proceedings
• No provision for regularization
• Simplified process of obtaining C.C
• Publication in the news paper
• Blacklisting of Engineers and contractors
• Demolition of buildings

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A success story of 24 hours Control Room
idea

• There was a need to create impression among tax
  payers that Corporation is there to attend to
  their grievances.
• Ensure total transparency
• Bring accountability amount staff members.
• Citizens used to approach Commissioner for small
  compalints
• Pressure from ward representatives

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As a result

• 24 hours Control Room is opened on 21st June 2004
• Attends to any complaint in flat 30 minutes
• 4 persons in each shift headed by an Officer
• 200 walkie talkies have been provided to
  Officers of all level
• Receives around 50-60 complaints everyday
• One Computer with internet facility
• Category of complaints based on the nature of
  complaints
• - Natural, Emergency, Critical
• Points have been assigned for each category

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• Thank you

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