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Civic bodies lack co-ordination: Report
SEVERAL INSTITUTIONAL and finance-related deficiencies have been detected in the city governance. The City Development Plan draft as part of much ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru Renewal Mission has revealed that Nagar Nigam, Jal Sansthan and Jal Nigam show lack of sharing the common information and resources.
SEVERAL INSTITUTIONAL and finance-related deficiencies have been detected in the city governance. The City Development Plan draft as part of much ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru Renewal Mission has revealed that Nagar Nigam, Jal Sansthan and Jal Nigam show lack of sharing the common information and resources.
The draft prepared by Feedback Venture in its report submitted to the Allahabad Nagar Nigam states that Nagar Nigam and Jal Sansthan work in isolation and do not interact much with public or call for their opinion in operational matters and development issues.
"For the development of city, proper infrastructure should be there, especially roads and sewage. Roads' width, as mentioned in Revenue record 1913, should be followed. All the departments concerned like Awas Vikas, Police, Health, Traffic, Fire, Jal Nigam, Jal Sansthan and power should come forward for working jointly for development of the city," said the report.
"Unfortunately, all these organisations are primarily carrying out only breakdown and maintenance work while neglecting the planing and its implantation aspects.
Routine and preventive maintenance seem to be lacking and most of these institutions spend 30-40 per cent of their expenditure on manpower at worker level. As a result basic works like leakage in water pipe line, waste of public tap water and most importantly no initiative has been taken to replace over 100-year-old water supply lines in the city.
Several activities of Nagar Nigam and Jal Sansthan are similar but carried out separately. Most of the institutions don't have proper asset records and no efforts have been initiated so far for asset inventory, said the report. Nagar Nigam does not have any zonal offices and the ward committees have not been constituted so far to facilitate the citizens and decentralisation of work.
Meanwhile, Municipal Commissioner Satya Narayan Srivastava has appointed zonal officers to carry out various works and ensure better civic amenities in the city.
