Port lands under encroachment

Vast lands belonging to Mumbai and other ports in the country are under encroachment and the authorities have taken steps to remove them, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said today.
Port authorities have taken many initiatives to remove encroachments at respective ports like conducting periodical encroachment removal programmes with the help of state governments, fencing of encroachment-prone plots and raising boundary walls," he said in Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
In order to map port land, all ports have undertaken GIS mapping to create database for effective land management including anti-encroachment drives.
The Minister said a total of 403 acres of land belonging to various ports are under encroachment. They are Kolkata (178 acre), Kandla (87 acre), Paradip (73.5 acre), Mumbai (44.48 acre), Tuticorin (12.48 acre), Chennai (6.03 acre) and Visakhapatnam (2.36 acre).