Mangalore, June 25, 2014: The task of evicting the petty shops operating beneath the fly overs at Kuntikan and Kulur Junction has been initiated by the MCC officials on June 25, Wednesday morning. MCC Commissioner Shanadi Ajith Kumar Hegde had on Tuesday ordered eviction of the shops. Though the petty shopkeepers resisted the eviction attempts, the MCC officials succeeded in evicting them with the help of the police.
The unauthorised petty shops located on either side of the Kulur Road had encroached even the basement of the fly over least bothered about the inconvenience caused to pedestrians, people waiting for buses and other motorists. Repeated instructions to them to vacate the place too had fallen on deaf ears.
The same was the problem even beneath the Kuntikan fly over and on Wednesday all the shops which even posed cleanliness problem have been evicted amid opposition from the petty shop keepers who argue that the corporation was hitting at their bellies.