vadodara the vadodara municipal corporation vmc on thursday night razed the new belbaug shopping centre opposite the railway station the vmc had issued a notice to the shops there stating that they were dilapidatedremoving the shopping centre was needed for the station area redevelopment project of the civic body the project requires that several existing structures in the area are taken care of a transport hub as well as a sprawling city square will come up in the areaearlier the civic body had razed its own pravasi gruh belbaug shopping centre station shopping centre and other structures in the area the vmc had also started razing the pathik bhavan owned by the district panchayat as it was in a bad condition but had to stop the work as the gujarat high court ordered a status quo a little ahead on the sayajigunj main road the civic body has razed a petrol pump and a tyre repair shop even as the space used by the traffic police to park vehicles will be vacated soonthe shopkeepers at new belbaug shopping centre were asked to vacate the shops in the evening they have been assured that they would be given alternative spaces in the future the shops were vacated by late in the evening following which the razing drive beganvmc commissioner dr vinod rao said that there were around 56 shops in the complex the bad condition of the shops is evident from the fact that we could raze them only in around 30 minutes in the future the road will now shift towards the compound wall of the university giving space to the transport hub said rao