Resolution to suspend building inspector passed

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, September 25

A resolution was passed in the Bathinda Municipal Corporation (MCB) General House meeting on Tuesday to suspend a building inspector for misbehaving with councillors.

XEN Davinder Jaura also came under fire with councillors accusing him of not giving due respect to them.

Pardeep Kumar Goyal alias Gola, councillor from Ward Number 42, raised the issue that building inspector Nancy had misbehaved with him.

He said a widow had a plot near Rajiv Gandhi Nagar and she was getting a small boundary wall constructed for demarcation of the plot. But building inspector Nancy, along with her team, reached the spot and stopped the worked. The work was started again in the evening, but a team was sent again to stop it.

Gola said he called up the building inspector and questioned why she had stopped the work of the boundary wall. Nancy replied that she had done so as the map of the building was not approved. He said he tried to assure her that they were constructing the wall just for demarking the vacant plot and not to construct any building.

He claimed that she said that she would not allow any construction there. When he insisted on building the boundary wall, she replied that she we would get it demolished the next morning. Later, Nancy threatened the councillor that he could do whatever he wanted to and she would do what she could.

Gola also presented a recording of the conversation after which other councillors demanded action against Nancy.

Another councillor, Gursewak Mann, said a poor widow had started constructing her house in Paras Ram Nagar and Nancy stopped that work too. He claimed that he called her and said they had paid the fee and had already filed for the map as well. If there was any objection, she could tell them and they could get it rectified. But Nancy spoke rudely to him, he alleged.

The councillors claimed that two-three storey buildings coming up in the city were being ignored, whereas poor people were being targeted. They presented a resolution demanding suspension of building inspector Nancy which was passed unanimously.

Earlier, at the start of the meeting, Sherry Goyal, councillor from Ward Number 6, leveled allegations that XEN Davinder Jaura did not pick her calls and had spoken to her rudely.

Jaura told the House that he did not pick the call as he was in some important work and a few minutes later when he received the call again, he answered it and told the councillor that he was busy and would call her back in some time.

He alleged that after sometime, her husband came into his office and misbehaved with him. Even the people sitting in his office questioned his behaviour.

Mayor Balwant Rai Nath, reacting to the issue, said such behaviour with women councillors was not acceptable and should not be repeated.