Hsg Societies' Residents Fear Demolition Drive

Residents of two cooperative housing societies in Balewadi seek investigation

- Nadeem Inamdar

PUNE: The residents of two cooperative housing societies in Balewadi are worried that their access road may be demolished in the future as a land surveyor has erroneously placed the said road under private ownership.

So much so that the residents have accused the Land Records Office (LRO) of deliberately altering land records to benefit a private landowner, and have demanded an investigation into the matter.

According to the residents, it all started with an employee of the LRO—surveyor V V Kokare—carrying out a boundary-marking exercise without consulting the society members during which, the access road of Amit Emerald Park Society was mistakenly shown as part of a neighboring private property despite the road having been acquired by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in exchange for Floor Space Index (FSI) compensation.

Residents of Amit Emerald Park Society and Celebration Society, who use this road, are now worried that this misrepresentation can lead to the demolition of their buildings in the future.