Vacant plots in Salt Lake turn garbage dumps

The empty plots in Salt Lake, which are lying in utter neglect, have turned into garbage dumps and become home to unauthorized settlers. A few years ago, the state urban development department, the custodian of Salt Lake plots, had identified nearly 50 such vacant plots lying unused across the township for several years and put up boards on them, identifying them as ‘government land’ to prevent any unscrupulous and illegal construction on the plots. However, with no proper monitoring and clean-up work either by the urban development authorities or the local Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, the plots have either been taken over by unauthorised settlers or are lying in utter neglect with garbage and litter thrown all over them.