Statesman News Service
MALDA, April. 22: The chairman of the English Bazaar municipality Mr Narendranath Tiwari today expressed unhappiness over the role of police for failing to check ‘illegal’ earth filling of wetlands near Gorail Bridge in ward no 3 which has already blocked an important drainage system. “Despite several reminders to the IC of the English Bazaar police station police have failed to stop earth filling of a wet land near the Godrail Bridge . We had lodged two FIRs with the police station mentioning specific name of promoters and their address but police have done nothing,” said Mr Tiwari, addressing a Press conference today. The chairman lastly sent a third reminder to the IC English Bazaar police station today and lastly both chairman and the IC visited the spot but failed to spot any persons there who were filling lands with the help of trucks today. Speaking to the reporters the IC Mr P Pradhan said: “We have been trying to monitor the area to check earth filling work but the promoters are doing this job secretly”.On the other hand, though the civic body chief claimed that area was under the English Bazaar Municipality but the local promoters have managed papers of the land from the land department which is belongs to the gram panchayat area. Challenging the civic body chief, the promoters claimed that character of the land is officially wetland. The civic body chief Mr Tiwari told reporters that it would excavate a particular portion of filled lands soon with the help of police to clear congestion of the drainage system of the English Bazaar municipal areas.
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