Get rid of rooftop danger: Mittal

TAKING A serious view of the threat posed by dangerous hoardings, dilapidated buildings, Commissioner RK Mittal on Monday directed the municipal corporation authorities to remove the same in a time-bound manner.

TAKING A serious view of the threat posed by dangerous hoardings, dilapidated buildings, Commissioner RK Mittal on Monday directed the municipal corporation authorities to remove the same in a time-bound manner.

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“At the same time work on the construction of subways and underground parking facility should be undertaken in a concerted manner by including them in the City Development Package,” he said. Besides, he said, building material dumped on roadside in several places in the city often led to traffic jams and was a cause of great inconvenience to the commuters.

He directed the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) to launch a special drive from Tuesday onwards to remove this roadside ‘malba’ (building material). While lauding LMC’s effort in releasing a list of development works executed by it in the month of April Mittal suggested that the civic body should launch its own website. Apart from apprising the people about the work being undertaken by it, this would also ensure transparency in LMC’s functioning, he pointed out.

Divisional Commissioner RK Mittal asked Lucknow Municipal Corporation to prepare a list of dangerous hoardings and remove them from the city roads; he has also directed LMC officials to issue the notices to the owners and occupants of unsafe buildings in an important meeting with the LMC officials on Monday. The LMC has been directed to initiate the legal action against the unsafe buildings of the city.

The divisional commissioner called for preparing the list of people spreading the building material on road. These people would be charged by LMC to remove the waste building material.