Amritsar MC gearing up to solve civic problems before festival season

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 6

In view of the festival season ahead and religious events, the Municipal Corporation on Tuesday conducted a meeting to make arrangements for decoration and cleanliness in the city.

Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu and Commissioner Malwinder Singh Jaggi held a meeting with the office-bearers of the Central Valmiki Temple, Hathi Gate, regarding the arrangements to be made by the MCon the birth anniversary of Lord Valmiki.

Younis Kumar, chairman, Central Valmiki Temple, Yograj Malhotra, Ashok Bhatti, Tirlok Chand and Rajinder Kumar Nitu, besides officials of the MC, the Amritsar Civil, Operation and Maintenance Wing (O&M), and the Health Department were present in the meeting.

Members of the temple committee informed the Mayor that in the coming days, Lord Valmiki’s birth anniversary would be celebrated with great zeal and a procession taken out in the city. They said many roads in the city needed to be recarpeted, cleaned, besides repairing the dysfunctional street lights. Mini-high masts should be set up at chowks.

The Mayor and the Commissioner assured the office-bearers that potholes would be repaired. Dysfunctional street lights would be repaired and made functional in the city and cleanliness would be maintained. The Mayor said if they faced any problem, he must be contacted and informed about it.

Rintu issued strict instructions to the officials that any negligence regarding a civic work would not be tolerated. He said teams should be formed for the festival season and complaints of cleanliness and street lights near temples, gurdwaras and mosques should be fixed so that people do not face any civic problem during the festival season.

The Mayor stated that Diwali was less than a month away and meetings had already been held with the officials who were issued instructions in this regard.