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What were the officials waiting for and why the need to be named and shamed for such things when these form part of their duty.” Though we clean this area regularly, these people are the ones who sell toys and other items at the Bharat Nagar crossing and they had built their makeshift homes just a day or two ago. We will now keep a strict vigil in the entire area to ensure that nothing like this happens ever again.”Meanwhile speaking to TOI, Col Darshan Dhillon (Retd) who raised this issue, said, “What the MC has done now could have been done earlier too. LUDHIANA: A day after TOI raised the issue of the encroachments mushrooming over memorial of 1965 war hero Major Bhupinder Singh — recipient of Maha Vir Chakra posthumously) — municipal corporation (MC) swung into action and evicted the slum dwellers from the site and also cleaned the area.After the MC’ s step, the former Army officers who had strongly criticised the district administration and municipal corporation over their inaction against encroachers and failure to maintain the memorial have expressed satisfaction over the action. However, they are of the view that it would have been better if the department would have acted earlier on its own rather than them drawing their attention towards the issue.Corporation sanitation officer, Bantu Singh, who visited the site with his team to evict the encroachers and get the area cleaned, said, “As we got orders from our the higher authorities to take action against the encroachers, we evicted them from the site today and made sure that the area where the tents had been erected has been cleaned..