Encroachment Panorama

In our Previous blog Rulers of Footpath we tried to bring in front of our readers 

the different endeavor of earlier governments to evict hawkers from the pavements of 

Kolkata and the freebees offered by present government. The encroachment on 

pavements at Esplanade and Gariahat by illegal hawkers are known and seen by most 

of our readers. We took a round at different part of Kolkata and tried to capture 

few pictures of encroachment on pavements. We moved around the Lake Gardens area 

and found that in few places 100% of the pavements were encroached!

The Hawkers have taken the share on the pavements which we are all aware of by now. 

Let us see who else have taken share on the pavements of Kolkata. 

One of shareholders is political parties!!

Once upon a time “Mera Bharat Mahaan” party, ie Indian National Congress (INC) party office might have changed the camp as the Trinamool Congress Flag can be seen fluttering in the above picture. Remember INC government in West Bengal tried to evict hawkers in 1975 (see earlier blog) now they have encroached the footpath!!

How can the ruling party not be a shareholder of the pavement?

A Cart which is hawker’s union office!!

Well when the entire world is God’s creation we need to allot some space for him/her.

A decorator has done illegal temporary shed and using public and private space to stack or pile his bamboos. This decorator guy must be having some political connection when he is having such audacity to use public and private spaces.

Amidst of all these we found two of BJP karyakartas are doing Swachh Bharat Abhiyan – cleaning the streets.