Encroachments removed in Gorakhpur

THE MUNICIPAL corporation carried out an anti-encroachment drive from Ghosh Company crossing to Shastri crossing. The squad removed hundreds of vendors, two dozen teashops, 50 hoardings and four dozen banners. The squad was led by deputy municipal commissioner AK Avasthi and Gopi Krishna Srivastav. They said the team focused on removing illegal construction in order to ease traffic bottlenecks.

THE MUNICIPAL corporation carried out an anti-encroachment drive from Ghosh Company crossing to Shastri crossing. The squad removed hundreds of vendors, two dozen teashops, 50 hoardings and four dozen banners.

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The squad was led by deputy municipal commissioner AK Avasthi and Gopi Krishna Srivastav. They said the team focused on removing illegal construction in order to ease traffic bottlenecks.

The anti-encroachment squad, accompanied by police and PAC jawans, faced mild resistance from the vendors who complained that no notice was issued to them to remove their shops. They said the anti-encroachment squad had ruined their business.

The municipal corporation is facing a dearth of staff. There is no municipal commissioner and district magistrate Dr Hariom is the administrator. Due to lack of proper monitoring, various departments of the corporation are not working properly. The streetlight department and the construction departments are the worst affected.

Deputy municipal commissioner Satyaprakash Pandey, who inspected sanitation work and drinking water supply in various localities, was displeased with the performance of the employees.

He detected piles of garbage in Shahpur and near the Imambara school. Plus he found leaking pipelines near the Indira crossing. He found that streetlights from Reti road to Sahibganj remained switched off at night. Pandey directed subordinate officials to take stringent action against the erring officials.