A day after the civic physique in Morbi served a demolition discover to an underneath development Swaminarayan temple, District Collector KB Jhaveri on Wednesday stated he has fashioned a multi-disciplinary committee to look into alleged encroachment. The District Collector swung into motion after social employee KD Panchasara, advocate Dilip Agechaniya and two others filed an software at his workplace on Might 27.
Panchasara and Agechaniya have alleged that elements of the underneath development temple precincts encroached the mattress of Machchhu river on the website the place 135 folks have been killed after the Jhulto Pul collapse on October 30, 2022. Of their software, the 4 claimed that the development by the Swaminarayan sect was constricting the course of the river, which may spell catastrophe within the occasion of a flood.
“Main inquiry means that as seen from (Mayur) bridge, the development appears to be an encroachment on the mattress of the river. Conserving in thoughts the appliance we’ve obtained, we’ve requested chief officer of Morbi municipality, sub-divisional Justice of the Peace of Morbi, our DILR (district inspector of land information) and govt engineer (of irrigation division) to conduct a joint survey and submit a report,” Jhaveri informed reporters.
Whereas telephone calls and textual content messages to Harismaran Swami, who’s overseeing development of the temple, didn’t elicit any response, a senior functionary of the sect in Morbi claimed the development is authorized. “A retaining wall has been there on the jap financial institution for the previous 100 years. Due to that, the jap a part of Morbi was not affected throughout the 1979 Machchhu dam catastrophe. All that we’re doing now could be to boost the peak of that wall,” the functionary stated, “We have now bought this piece of land from the royal household of Morbi. Our development is authorized and we will reply sooner or later of time.”