Encroachment removal drives leave Hyderabad footpaths unsafe for pedestrians

Miles and miles of road sides in the city are being declared as clear of encroachments, but the exercise of removing these encroachments is failing to restore space either for pedestrians or motorists. Across the civic bodies of GHMC, CMC and MMC, special drives are being held, and hundreds of encroachments on footpaths are being removed. But lacking a clear restoration strategy, these drives have left the spaces littered with debris from demolition drives, fallen...