National Highways Authority asks Mysuru civic body to demolish dome-shaped bus stand within 3 days
In a notice dated November 15, NHAI gave a 3-day deadline to demolish the shelter. “If the competent authorities fail to take action, NHAI will take action as per the Highway Administration Act 2003,” the notice stated.
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Mysuru, Nov 17: Days after the BJP MP took the objection over the mosque-like bus stand on the Mysuru-Ooty Road, now the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on Thursday (17 November) directed the Mysuru civic body to demolish a bus stop with dome-shaped shelters. Issuing the notice, the NHAI said that the structure had been constructed in an unauthorised manner.
In a notice dated November 15, NHAI gave a 3-day deadline to demolish the shelter. “If the competent authorities fail to take action, NHAI will take action as per the Highway Administration Act 2003,” the notice stated.
In its notice, the National Highways Authority of India mentions “unauthorised occupation” as a reason for the demolition order, but does not provide details about any sort of encroachment. Instead, the notice claims that the structure had been constructed to achieve “controversial kind of issues”, and that they had led to “communal issues”.
“...The bus stop has been constructed even though many times our engineers have stopped the work within the National Highway Right of Way,” the notice added.
It should be reminded that earlier Prathap Simha, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from the Mysuru-Kodagu constituency, threatened to bulldoze dome-shaped bus stops, claiming that they looked like mosques. “If there is a big dome structure with two small domes on either side, it is considered a mosque,” he had said at an event in Mysuru.
“I have given a three to four days’ deadline to the concerned engineers to demolish the structures. If they don’t demolish them, I will take a JCB [bulldozer] myself and bring them down.”
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