Urgent call for completion of Nurmahal police station building after 18 years of delay
The Punjab Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) instructed the Administrative Secretary of Home Affairs and Justice to take immediate action to complete the construction of the Nurmahal police station building. This directive follows a news report forwarded to the Chief Minister (CM) on December 25, highlighting the prolonged delay in finishing the police station’s construction.
Dilbag Singh, a social activist, and a resident of Baina Pur village has sent to the CMO a news report which said in the year 2006 police station Nurmahal was in a private building.
The report, sent by social activist Dilbag Singh, a resident of Baina Pur village, sheds light on the issue. The police station has been operating out of a private building since 2006. In response, the local community took the initiative to donate six kanals and 18 marlas of land from the village for the police station. Additionally, they contributed Rs 25 lakhs towards the construction of the building. Despite these efforts, the project has remained incomplete due to bureaucratic delays, primarily the inability to transfer the land title to the police department.
The six kanals and 14 marlas of land have been legally mutated in the name of common owners. However, the police department has yet to finalize the land transfer, hindering the completion of the police station. In 2012, the Nurmahal Nagar Council passed a unanimous resolution to transfer the land to the police department for this purpose. Yet, the resolution was rejected by the Director of Local Government, and no further action was taken by successive state governments under Chief Ministers P.S. Badal, Captain Amarinder Singh, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Charanjit Singh Channi and Bhagwant Mann.
The delay has left the police station in need of essential infrastructure, including barracks for officers, boundary walls, flooring, and parking spaces for impounded vehicles. Residents have made repeated requests to the government to approve the land transfer and allow the completion of the building, but these calls have so far gone unanswered.
This situation calls for urgent government intervention to ensure that the necessary steps are taken for the timely completion of the Nurmahal Police Station, a crucial infrastructure for the local community.
