Mayor & Commissioner visits different areas of city on Thursday

Chandigarh, August 1:- 

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Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Mayor of Chandigarh and Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh today visited various parts of city to take stock of ongoing works initiated by MCC and problems in the rural areas.

The Mayor & Commissioner was accompanied by all senior officers including Sh. Manoj Bansal, Chief Engineer, Sh. Shelender Singh, SE, Public Health, Sh. Sanjay Arora, SE, B&R, Executive engineers and Sub Divisional Engineers all engineering wing of MCC.

In the morning time the Mayor and Commissioner started visit from Sector 27 with plantation drive at a park near Chandigarh Press Club alongwith Sh. Devender Singh Babla, area councilor and local residents. After taking round of the area the Mayor and Commissioner visited Sector 25 alongwith area councilor Smt. Sheela Devi and other concerned officers.

The Commissioner asked the Executive Engineer, Horticulture Division to develop the parks properly i.e. by providing grassing, flower beds, huts, benches, children play equipments and footpaths, wherever required. He also took round of the slum area at sector 25, where the Commissioner directed the public health engineers to check the feasibility of renovating the toilet blocks, constructed by the Administration, which are now in abandon shape. The Commissioner also directed the officers of Estate branch, MCC to check the status of the toilet blocks, whether it belongs to MCC or falls under the jurisdiction of Administration and also check whether the toilet blocks be renovated by MCC.

During the visit at Community Centre, Sector 25, the Commissioner directed the concerned engineers of B&R wing to prepare estimate to upgrade/renovate the community centre immediately.

In the evening the Mayor & Commissioner visited Raipur Kalan village alongwith Sh. Rambir Bhatti and other prominent leaders of the area. They apprised the team of officers that the cremation ground in the village be renovated and rest of the land adjoining the cremation ground may be used for developing park. The Commissioner asked the chief Engineer to conduct a survey in the area and took up the matter with Architect, Chandigarh Administration for development of the area.

The Commissioner directed the Public Health engineers to level the drainage pipelines in the village and resolve the problem of sewerage blockage. He asked the engineers to prepare estimates for carpet the roads wherever required and use pavers in the narrow streets. The Commissioner asked the engineers to check the water supply lines in the area with regard to enhance water supply or replacement of pipelines etc.

On the demand of villagers, the Commissioner asked the engineers to check feasibility to provide community centre over there. He also asked to check other issues including repair of street lights and provision of new light points in the village and development of parks etc.

During the visit at Raipur Khurd, the local residents demanded enhancement of water supply to the area especially in the Tribune Colony. The commissioner asked concerned engineers to strengthen the sewerage disposal system in the area, recarpetting of roads, provision of street lights and enhancement of water supply to the village.

In addition to that the zonal commissioners including Sh. Sanjay Kumar Jha, IAS, Special Commissioner, Sh. Tilak Raj, Sh. S.K. Jain and Sh. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional Commissioners also visited their respective areas alongwith concerned engineers to take stock of the ongoing works of MCC and progress of the issues taken up in the last visits.

The special focus was on Jal Shakti Abhiyan, under which the zonal commissioner checked the possibilities of rainwater harvesting in their respective areas alongwith tree plantation in the parks/green belts and open spaces.

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