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Nagpur Municipal Corporation Breaks 20-Year Procrastination Record

5 February 2026 - Byramji Town, Nagpur, Maharashtra

Record date
5 Feb 2026
Location
Byramji Town, Nagpur, Maharashtra
The odd part

Taking two decades to notice illegal shops, and two hours to stop demolishing them.

What happened

The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has redefined 'steady' governance by waiting exactly 20 years to act on a demolition notice issued in 2004. After two decades of administrative meditation, the bulldozers finally arrived at Poonam Chambers, only for the High Court to issue a stay order within hours. The illegal shops have now officially existed longer than most of the employees' careers, proving that in Nagpur, justice doesn't just crawl; it takes a generation-long nap.