Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 29: Minister for Health and Medical Education, ARI and Trainings Choudhary Lal Singh today ordered eviction of encroachers from the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) land near Resham Garh Colony.
The Minister, during a visit to the site, directed the authorities to ask the encroachers to vacate the land voluntarily, or be ready to face stern action.
Secretary Health and Medical Education Dr. Mandeep K Bhandari, District Development Commissioner Simrandeep Singh, Commissioner Jammu Municipal Corporation Soujanya Sharma, Principal GMC Dr. Ghanshyam Dev Gupta, Incharge SSP Rajiv Pandey and Administrator GMC Babila Rakhwal accompanied the Minister.
During the visit to Resham Colony behind Girls Hostel, the Minister found that some of the residents of the area have encroached around 4 kanals of GMC land and constructed concrete houses over it. He asked the District Development Commissioner to demarcate the land as per revenue records and take stern action against the land grabbers. He also asked SSP Jammu to extend full cooperation to the JMC, GMC and Revenue authorities for eviction of encroachers.
Later, the Minister also visited Shri Amarnath Yatri Niwas at Bhagwati Nagar and reviewed the arrangements made by the administration for comfortable stay of pilgrims.
Choudhary Lal Singh instructed all the line departments to work in tandem to ensure that the visiting Amarnath Yatris get all basic facilities.
The Minister stressed for adequate arrangements for medicare facilities, sanitation at Yatri Niwas.
Later, the Minister also inspected arrangements at Lakhanpur ahead of the arrival of first batch of pilgrims to the State tomorrow.
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