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Trust | Punjab - India | PID: 190223
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At last residents of Maharishi Valmiki Nagar, a 256 acre colony developed by the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT), have something to cheer about.
Their long-pending complaint of insanitary conditions in the colony with no arrangements for collection or disposal of garbage will be addressed soon as work for the installation of a static waste compactor near Government Polytechic for Women in the colony has been taken in hand.
The project has been launched by the LIT, which envisages installation of eight static waste compactors at an estimated cost of Rs 7.5 crore. City Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu visited the site earmarked for installation of waste compactor. Sandhu is the councillor from the area in which the colony falls.
“As of now, the sanitary conditions across the colony are pathetic. Roads and streets are hardly ever swept. If at all the sanitation staff carries out some work, heaps of garbage and domestic waste are dumped either along roads and streets or at vacant sites making lives of residents living in the vicinity miserable, besides exposing them to various health hazards,” said Sunil Dutt, a resident of the colony and secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.
Many other residents of the colony complained that the sanitation staff worked at their own whims due to slack supervision of the contractor and officials responsible for the cleanliness work in colony.
Dutt and other residents expressed hope that along with the installation of static waste compactor, the sanitation work would also be streamlined to rid the colony of dirty picture it presented now.
According to LIT officials, the civil work had commenced for static waste compactors, which were to be installed in Maharishi Valmiki Nagar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar – both colonies developed and maintained by the Trust.
“Besides, six more compactors will be located at Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar, Lodhi Club Road, Sham Nagar, Jawahar Nagar Camp, Near Rose Garden and Sarabha Nagar, all areas under the administrative control of the Municipal Corporation,” officials added.
“Work to be carried out in areas other than colonies developed and maintained by the LIT will be executed under Section 169-A of the Punjab Town Improvement Act,” officials said.
“Mandatory sanction from the state government has already been taken in this regard,” officials added.
| Updated on: 07 - Aug - 2019
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