Commissioner visits Sector 44 to take stock of ongoing development works; listens to the problems of area residents
Chandigarh, April 1:- Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh today visited Sector 44 to take stock of ongoing development works alongwith to see the problems of area residents.
The visit was started at 6.30 am in the morning. All the sectors of city will be covered on foot by the Commissioner alongwith all the team of concerned engineers and this was the 1st “On Foot” visit to Sector 44.
The Commissioner was accompanied by Sh. Jasmanpreet Singh, area councilor, chief engineer, all Superintending Engineers and concerned Executive Engineers, SDEs, Junior Engineers of MCC, office bearers of Resident Welfare Associations and local residents.
The visit was started from Community Centre, Sector 44, where the Commissioner asked the SE, B&R to prepare proper plan and estimates for the all over renovation of the community centre. She directed the SE, Horticulture to make a policy to beautify the green area, parks inside the community centres in to beautiful landscapes and be maintained on regular basis.
She further moved through sector 44-A, where she directed the chief engineer to write a letter to the engineering wing, Chandigarh Administration regarding cleaning of the open/reserve land infront of the community centre and proper leveling be done as per the level of road. She asked the public health engineers to issue notice to the govt. school authorities for water leakage outside the school premises.
While taking serious note of the broken road berms, the Commissioner directed the concerned officers to get the repair work done immediately. She asked the concerned engineers of horticulture wing for repair of footpaths in parks and pruning of trees wherever required. She asked the officers to repair the children play equipments and paint work be done on the play equipments on priority.
The Commissioner directed the horticulture engineers to issue notice for poor maintenance and not keeping the park clean to the concerned society/association, taken up for maintenance. She said that cancel the agreement with the society/association on unsatisfactory work and poor maintenance of the parks.
She also took serious view of the encroachments made by the area residents on the road berm outside their houses and asked the concerned officers to prepare report according to the permissions and policy and put up on priority. She asked to maintain the surface of roads proper and repair the curb channels accordingly. She directed the public health engineers to repair all the road gullies before the recarpetting work of the roads.
To stop the erosion of soil from outside the boundary walls in high side from road, the Commissioner asked the engineers to fix curb channels along the road berm to avoid the soil erosion and mud flow during rainy season. She asked the horticulture engineers to repair the sign boards of gardens and get repair of the open/broken junction boxes of street lights to avoid any kind of untoward accident.
She asked the public health engineers for proper covering of sluice valves near parks and take action to tie loose wires of telephone/other cables to avoid any incident. She asked the SE B&R for patchwork of internal roads wherever required immediately.
On the poor sanitation of some areas, the Commissioner directed the Health Supervisor to issue notice to the concerned firm for poor sanitation. She asked that the firm shall ensure proper cleaning of road berms outside parks and along the roads including cutting of grass and cleaning etc.
She asked the engineering wing to issue challans to the violators, who throw malba in the open spaces and along the road sides and constitute special teams of supervisory staff.
The area residents raised the issue of low pressure water supply at the 1st and 2nd floors of all houses at sector 44-A, for which the Commissioner directed the public health SE to check the problem and resolve it immediately.
Regarding C&D waste, the Commissioner asked the engineering wing to remove the C&D waste and take it to the C&D plant at industrial area for further processing. She asked that the paver blocks be repaired wherever paved areas have been uprooted or are uneven along the market areas.
She asked the concerned officers to explore possibilities to develop parking site near verka booth in sector 44-D after consulting local area residents. She asked the engineers to plan issuing instant challans to the violators and their immediate disposal by introducing pos machines.
