Ahmedabad: This is a tragedy of urban existence that open spaces are shrinking. In fact, a group of concerned parents from different societies in the city have upped the ante against Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for diverting a public ground to rehabilitate Bapunagar chawls’ residents.
Angry residents of Bajrang and Mamtanagar societies, who stay in the vicinity of AMC’s Viratnagar health centre open plot, gate crashed into mayor, standing committee chairman and local corporator’s offices on Tuesday to stop the land transfer. The AMC, however, went against these protests on Thursday and held a lottery for providing housing on the open plot.