MC to remove illegal footpaths, ramps on 18 roads in city

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, April 18

The Municipal Corporation Bathinda (MCB) has issued notices to remove illegal footpaths and ramps on 18 roads in the city. These roads are the ones, which witness a thick volume of traffic as well as face the problem of traffic congestion due to illegal ramps and footpaths raised by people outside their shops and residences on roads.

The MCB has only warned the residents by issuing them notices to remove footpaths or ramps on their own within a week. Despite the notices, if these are not removed by residents, then the MCB will demolish these encroachments in the coming days.

The roads, which are facing such problems, are Bhagu road, Ajit road, Afeemwali gali, Sirki Bazaar, Kikar Bazaar, Partap Nagar main road, Dhobi bazaar adjoining streets, Sukhpeer main road, Court road, Quila road, Guru Nanakpura mohalla, Namdev road, Poojawala mohalla and other roads in the city.

In the first place, the MC has issued notices to Partap Nagar main road shopkeepers as the MC has planned to widen the main road in the area. Due to which people living in nearby areas would also get respite from traffic congestion witnessed on this Partap Nagar main road daily. Shopkeepers and residents in the area are welcoming this move of the MCB.

MCB has also taken a decision to remove encroachments and issue challans to illegal buildings in the first phase on the Ajit road as this area has become a hub of education institute due to which people have open big commercial institutes in residential buildings, due to which MCB has faced huge loss.

These illegal buildings don’t have proper parking due to which students studying in these institutes park their vehicles on the roads leading to chaos and traffic congestion. MCB now has decided to issue notices to these buildings and take legal action against them. Even vehicles which are becoming problem for the smooth flow of traffic on the road would tow away by the traffic police.

The growing numbers of vehicles and shrinking parking places have started taking toll and it has intensified traffic problem in the city. In commercial areas of Dhobi Bazaar, Sirki Bazaar, Hospital Bazaar, Post Office Baazar, Mehna Chowk, Arya Samaj Chowk, Ajit Road, Partap Nagar main road and roads running parallel to Mall Road in various mohallas, the situation is grim.