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Kanpur a city with crumbling infrastructure
WATCH KANPUR to see how a city can be ruralised. It is a city cursed by big polluting industries, breaking infrastructure, broken roads, no drains, choking sewage system and poor water supply even though it is located on banks of Ganga river. Added to this is the poor power supply despite having a thermal power station at Panki.
WATCH KANPUR to see how a city can be ruralised. It is a city cursed by big polluting industries, breaking infrastructure, broken roads, no drains, choking sewage system and poor water supply even though it is located on banks of Ganga river. Added to this is the poor power supply despite having a thermal power station at Panki.
It’s a city which has industries but is unable to sustain them. As many as 25 top industries have shifted their base to other cities due to lack of infrastructure like power, road and water. It’s a city where corrupt leaders, contractors and officials call the shots while the whistle blowers are shown the door as they don’t fit into the system.
Roads are encroached upon, the municipal corporation is in poor financial condition and an official who tried to improve the civic infrastructure of the city with the help of employees, was given the marching orders, showing the power nexus of corrupt officials.
According to sources,the removal of municipal chief Badal Chatterji was hurried because after breaking the power nexus of the contractor mafia, he was planning to train his guns on big commercial units and establishments paying no tax to the municipal corporation.
According to a survey conducted by KMC employees, the city of Kanpur had the potential to collect more than Rs 150 crore tax from its commercial establishments. Presently, these commercial establishments are paying peanuts in the name of taxes.
Many big malls located in the city are paying merely few thousands rupees as tax. Most of the shopkeepers are giving taxes assessed on the residential parameters.
The city can earn huge money by tightening its noose on commercial units, shops, operating inside the city.
Chatterji was able to identify thousands of illegal hoardings in the city and was about to bring about improvement in the financial situation of the KMC.
