Proposal to approve 348 illegal colonies to be tabled

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 16

The MC General House meeting, which had got postponed earlier, will now be held on October 18.

Notably after Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu had raided the Jalandhar Improvement Trust, the meeting had got postponed, which was scheduled to be held on September 28. With this, new agenda have come up which will be tabled in the meeting.

In one of the proposals, it is mentioned that Malko village must be brought under the Municipal limits.

As per another proposal, as many as 348 illegal colonies should get approval. Under the proposal, the areas will be declared ‘Public street’ after formation of a committee of which, Superintendant Engineer (B&R), Superintendant Engineer (O&M) and Assistant Town Planner will be the members.

One of the proposals that will be tabled in the meeting is that ID proofs of complainants, who give complaints regarding various civic issues or against other parties in the corporation, will be mandated.

Senior Deputy Mayor Surinder Kaur in a proposal has mentioned that the complainants share the complaints through social media and through various other means, but it had often come to the notice that to know more about the complaint, when a letter was sent to the mentioned address of the complainant, most of the information mentioned is found wrong.

Previous proposals mentioned in the agenda not gone well with residents. However, a proposal of the making of a project ‘Waste to Compost Plant’ in all constituencies is already facing the flak from councillors and residents.

The setting up of ‘Waste to Compost Plant’ project of 2 tonnes in the Urban Estate, Phase II of Cantonment area, has not gone down well with the residents living in nearby areas. Even residents’ associations have given a memorandum to the MC and the Mayor that it would become difficult for them to reside in nearby areas of the project.

But MC officials have been maintaining the fact that before protesting, the residents must understand what the project was all about.

The agenda read there was no centralised waste processing plant due to which the 500 tonnes of waste was getting dumped at a single site, Wariana, which was further leading to non-management of waste.

To solve this issue, a proposal of source segregation of waste was put forward. It was mentioned that the project would be helpful in many ways, such as, it will help in curbing diseases if the waste will be processed daily. There would also be no heaps of garbage in city areas.

For this project, four locations have been chosen which include Burlton Park at the North zone, Urban Estate, Phase II at the Jalandhar Cantonment, Rama Mandi area at the Central zone. The location for Jalandhar West zone is yet to be finalised.