The MCK is least bothered about the removal of footpaths and encroachments of the roads by the traders
The encroachment of roads would face a serious threat in the future as they would secure hawkers’ rights, and the town roads would be shrunken further, creating a chaotic situation with narrow roads
KARIMNAGAR, MARCH 17, 2026: Even as the people of Karimnagar town are suffering due to irregular and inadequate water supply with the advent of the summer season, the MCK authorities are giving more priority to watering the saplings planted illegally on the parking place on the premises of the Collectorate in Karimnagar town.
The MCK authorities have more concern about the encroachment of the parking place on the Collectorate premises and taking up plantation and converting the already existing parks and lawns on the premises as parking spaces for the cars and two-wheelers, causing serious inconvenience to the visitors for the reasons better known to the authorities concerned.
It is time for the MCK authorities to accord priority in providing adequate water supply to the people of the town and take up proper sanitation and removal of encroachment of footpaths and parking places instead of encroaching on the parking places of a four-decades-old parking place on the Collectorate premises. People of the town are suffering from irregular and inadequate water supply in the town in spite of adequate water in the LMD reservoir.
Incidentally, the MCK authorities had also released a rejoinder following a series of news items published in this website about the illegal encroachment of the parking place on the Collectorate premises stating that they had taken up plantation of saplings following the instructions of Collectorate’s AO and then Collector Pamela Satpathy.
Responding to series of news articles published in this website about the encroachment of the Collectorate parking space by taking up plantation denying parking to the visitors, removal of toilets and erection of signboards for imposing for urinating in the open and removal of cement benches set up in front of the Collector chamber premises and closure of toilets at the Collectorate auditorium, the MCK in an official release here on Saturday had stated that the plantation was taken up to enhance greenery and improve environmental quality on the premises and to protect these plants from cattle movement, fencing was erected only for safeguarding the saplings. These measures were taken up as part of improving the Collectorate campus environment.
The MCK had stated that all works undertaken by MCK inside the Collectorate campus were carried out duly taking prior approval from the concerned authority, and MCK has not taken up any activity on its own.
With regard to the CC road works, the MCK stated that as per the request and instructions communicated through the Collectorate authorities, CC patch works were executed to prevent inconvenience to the public, staff and visitors, and to ensure safer and smoother movement within the premises.
