RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Oct.21: Jharkhand State Housing Board (JSHB) foiled a land grab attempt of Berlin Hospital in Harmu Housing Colony.
The action was taken after JSHB came to know that the hospital has paved paths with paver blocks on the board’s land allotted through a lottery process in 2011.
The board officials brought earth movers and razed the paver blocks. They also warned the hospital authority to remain within its limits and not make any attempt to grab the board’s land.
Though the hospital authority told board officials that the path has been paved in public interest with due permission of local councillor Arun Kumar Jha, but when the officials verified the information it was found to be untrue.
The place where the board took the action is the same where on October 11 police had to intervene to rescue a milkman Sintu Yadav being badly beaten by a group of youths associated with Berlin Hospital following some dispute at a restaurant Khana Khajana and had to register an FIR in this connection.
The place, where the Berlin Hospital is under construction, earlier existed Ramdiri Residency. Close to the hospital under construction, there are three triple-storey weaker section residential units, a vegetable market, a temple, a marketing complex, a Shiva temple and a triple-storey private apartment.
Earlier on May 20 this year, a team led by Jharkhand State Housing Board chief engineer Narendra Prasad Sharma inspected the same site and had directed the contractors engaged in the construction to appear before him in his office following complaints of encroachment.
During his inspection, the chief engineer noticed that the building materials were spread on the board’s land and the road connecting the residential area with Thana Outpost and the vendor market.
