ISLAMABAD Nov 15 (TNS): The Marriott Hotel management looked on helplessly as their unauthorized security barricades set up on state land were demolished on Wednesday.
The federal capital civic agency started removing the encroachments — all unauthorized security barricades set up on state land — outside the Marriott Hotel as the public was being inconvenienced by them.
After the demolition, the hotel management will be asked to clear the debris to help widen the road to ensure that traffic flows uninterrupted.
Marriott’s management had first blocked the entire road outside the hotel in September 2008, when a dumper truck filled with explosives detonated and killed at least 54 people. It may be mentioned here that many other hotels are also creating similar blockades.
The blockades and encroachments by the Marriott Hotel’s administration were causing a nuisance for the people traveling on the road in front of the hotel and the encroached area near the parking was damaging the adjacent greenbelt and green area so they needed to be removed to facilitate the public.
Earlier the CDA chairman met with the hotel management and asked them to remove the barricades as soon as possible, but he did not give a strict deadline as such and directed the enforcement directorate of the CDA to finalize arrangements in consultation with hotel management to vacate state land.
As the guidelines issued by the chairman of the CDA to the hotel’s management to remove the barricades from the roads outside the hotel were not implemented and the hotel management did not abide by the instructions of the CDA and did not remove the barricades thus the need arose to take action against the hotel encroachments.
