Mysore/Mysuru: Three days after the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) reclaimed 5.14 acres of encroached land at Basavanahalli in the outskirts of the city, the value of which is estimated at Rs.100 crore, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) in a joint operation with the Taluk Administration this morning reclaimed 5 acres of encroached land at Gorur in the taluk, the value of which is now estimated at Rs. 3 crore.
The Government had earmarked 55 acres of a large swathe of land adjacent to the now Mandakalli COVID Care Centre at Gorur in the taluk years ago. This land was classified as Aramane Kaval land and came under new RTC Survey Nos. 112, 113, 121 and 127 (old Survey No.38) at Gorur. In 2004, the then Mysuru Tahsildar had handed over this land to the MCC for construction of Ashraya houses for beneficiaries of K.R. Assembly Constituency. But as there was a delay in the construction of Ashraya houses, three persons of a nearby village, taking advantage of the delay, encroached upon five acres of land and fenced it claiming that it belonged to them.
