24-05-2025
7 months after takeover, squatters & illegal parking still plague Indirapuram
Ghaziabad: Seven months after GDA handed over Indirapuram to the municipal corporation, encroachments, illegal parking and damaged sewer lines—the township's main problems—have remained.
While vendors selling fruits, clothes, utensils along the busy roads, like Kala Patthar Road and Makanpur, block pavements, haphazard parking on roadsides chokes daily traffic in the township.
"Parking mafia has taken over roads along major malls. Haphazardly parked bikes and cars reduce traffic to a single lane. Drain lids are damaged everywhere. You can't walk on pavements as you risk falling into drains, and you can't walk on roads as you risk being hit by a vehicle from behind," said Ashish Kumar, a resident of the area.
Another resident Arvind Mishra said barring door-to-door garbage collection, things have hardly changed.
GMC's chief engineer NK Choudhary told TOI that there are surprise anti-encroachment drives across the township but that hasn't helped. He claimed snarls and encroachments are more administrative than civic problems, as the parking mafia was active in the township.
Mayor Sunita Dayal, meanwhile, said an anti-encroachment drive was planned after May 30. "In the meantime, a database of roadside shopkeepers is being prepared to ascertain their domicile. Only those will be allowed to conduct business at designated places," Dayal said.
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