Jadavpur: Two houses and a portion of another house are being demolished in Shahidnagar for the Jadavpur-bound flank of Anwar Shah Road connector.

The demolition began about 15 days ago and one of the houses and the portion of another have been razed.

The other house would be demolished as soon as the family takes the compensation, a civic official said.

A Calcutta Municipal Corporation engineer told Metro that the civic body would try to thrown open the stretch in three months. "We are trying to get it done within that time. If we fail the deadline we will definitely open the stretch before the Puja."

The Anwar Shah Road connector that takes people to the Bypass from the Jadavpur police station crossing and vice versa was started 11 years ago. But the bottleneck at Shahidnagar has stayed since. At Shahidnagar, vehicles move in either direction on a single flank.

The houses stood on a plot through which the Jadavpur-bound flank is supposed to go through.

A 75m stretch of the flank that is ready couldn't be used for years because the houses stood just ahead of it.

"The plot on which the houses stood and the road that is ready but remains unused together add up to almost 150m," the engineer said.

A police officer said there was always a risk of accidents at Shahidnagar because vehicles move in either direction on the same road.

On the remaining part of the connector there's a divider separating east and west-bound vehicles, the officer said. "But at Shahidnagar, they are on the same flank and that increases the chances of accidents."

Both the east and west-bound flanks will have three lanes once the blocked stretch is thrown open. "Each of the flanks will be more than 3m wide," another civic engineer said.

"We received compensation at Rs 20 lakh for a cottah," Nilay Chakraborty, the owner of the house which lost a portion in the demolition, said. "There was a lot of negotiation with the civic body for the few months."