The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) assured the Hyderabad High Court on Friday that it would continue to remove the encroachments on footpaths so that the pedestrians could use them and, as a result, there would be free flow of traffic.
This report was filed before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar. The corporation was responding to a letter by Brig. Virender P. Sharma (Retd.) to the court complaining that authorities were not maintaining roads and footpaths properly. He maintained that whenever roads were widened, pavements were not being restored.
The GHMC claimed that it removed 17,988 encroachments on the footpaths in the city with the help of traffic police and thereafter, 2,847 temporary encroachments were also removed from April 14 to October 6, 2014. The GHMC assured the court that it would continue this drive for the smooth flow of traffic. The bench took the report on record and directed the GHMC to continue to be vigilant and closed the case.
