The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has told the owners of 735 residential and commercial buildings in Bhagwat Nagar that they will be evicted if they do not vacate the premises by September 10.
Spread over 22 acres of land, the buildings are located near the famous Mauryan site of Kumharar. The PMC notice served on the owners comes in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent directive to the state government to get the site vacated.
According to a PMC official, the owners of the buildings have been asked to vacate the land by September 10, failing which the government would demolish the concrete structures.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which has been waiting for the removal of the encroachments for a long time, now, plans to undertake further excavations on the land. The site boasts of the remains of the once-mag nificent 80-pillared hall and the arogyashala of Dhanvantari.
