Former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday urged the government to adopt a comprehensive method of clearing encroachments on rajakaluves based on a detailed report and with a humanitarian approach instead of the present method of resorting to demolition as a knee-jerk reaction.
Participating in a debate in the Legislative Assembly on the problems faced by people due to the recent heavy rains, Mr. Kumaraswamy described the ongoing demolition drive against illegal structures that have come up on rajakaluves in Bengaluru as an “adhoc.”
He argued that there was a dire need to
