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Rubble:Debris is strewn all around at Shahbad in Chitapur taluk of Gulbarga district after the demolition drive against encroachments. SHAHBAD (GULBARGA DISTrict): Many areas in the industrial township of Shahbad in Chitapur taluk have been reduced to rubble , as officials from the Revenue Department and City Municipal Council are continuing their drive against encroachments as part of road-widening. The rows of houses on either sides of roads are being demolished and those displaced are forced to take shelter under trees and live in open places. People are trying to retrieve whatever they could from their once loved homes. Displacement Debris of concrete blocks and mangled steel rods are strewn all around the area and earthmovers are slumbering around the city, bringing down new and old structures. Heritage buildings as old as 100 to 150 years have been razed to the ground. Hundreds of families had been displaced. Noorjehan and Ramabai Pawar were dumbstruck when a major portion of their house on the Nehru Chowk-Hungunta Road was demolished. More than 50 families belonging to the blacksmith community, who had been living in single or double-roomed housed in Lohar Galli between Shastri Chowk and Bharat Chowk, have lost their dwellings and are on the streets. “No house is available for rent as a majority of houses have been hit in the demolition drive. The few houses that are available for rent, are out of reach for the poor,” one of them said. Out of the total 3,000 small and big buildings in the township, around 2,000 buildings have been either fully or partially demolished. Many building owners were not issued mandatory notices and just four days before the drive, officials made a mark on the building. “It was left to our choice whether to demolish the marked portion ourselves or allow the officials to do the job,” said Ratanlal M. Hanchate on Thursday. Meanwhile, Dinshaw Mazda, grandson of the first chairperson of the then Shahbad Town Municipality Doulatbai D Irani, is waging a lone battle against the authorities' unilateral decision to take up demolition without sending notices to building owners. Mr. Mazda, who owns a palatial 200-year-old bungalow and a few other properties, has got a stay from a local court against the demolition of the compound wall of his bungalow.
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