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S Lalitha ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: It has been 17 years since large-scale encroachments took place on railway property around Yeswanthpur railway station. Bengaluru Railway Division is still trying to recover five-and-a-half acre of its land to create better infrastructure to facilitate running of more trains as well as create passenger amenities. This will facilitate running of more services from here,” said a top railway official. “Encroachments around Bengaluru Railway station involving one cluster of 103 slum houses and another 200 slums at Khoday’s Circle have been removed in the past apart from encroachments at Cantonment railway station and Baiyappanahalli,” he said. The process of clearing slums that have encroached railway land is under way near Nayandahalli station with 40.465 sqmt cleared..