GURGAON: Having failed to remove encroachers from large tracts of land it owns in the city, the MCG has decided to conduct a fresh survey and prepare a database of encroached land. This decision was taken by MCG chief Praveen Kumar in a meeting he held with senior officials earlier this week.

Kumar has asked enforcement department officials to indentify MCG land and build walls instead of barbed wire fences around the plots besides putting up boards declaring the civic body’s ownership.

MCG officials said hundreds of acres of municipal land is under encroachment. “The problem is that nobody even seems sure how much land is encroached. That is why a fresh survey is needed. The commissioner has also asked us to videograph the entire exercise so that it can be used as proof against the encroachers. He has also asked us to lodge criminal cases against these encroachers,” said an official.

The official also said a private agency, Map My India, had been asked to prepare the database and submit a report.

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