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LMC mulls action against coloniser
THE LUCKNOW Municipal Corporation has decided to take legal action against the private colonizer following deaths of children due to epidemic outbreak in Khurram Nagar and Saket Nagar.
THE LUCKNOW Municipal Corporation has decided to take legal action against the private colonizer following deaths of children due to epidemic outbreak in Khurram Nagar and Saket Nagar.
The municipal boss pulled up the zonal health officer for laxity in duty and made an adverse entry against the sanitary inspector of the area.
The colonizer (Khurram Nagar Jan Kalyan Samiti) has reportedly been collecting money from the residents for maintenance of drainage, roads etc, but had done nothing despite repeated pleas from the residents. Deliberate reluctance on part of the colonizer forced the residents to live in a hazardous condition.
Additional municipal commissioner Santosh Kumar said, “We have definite information that the colonizer had been charging Rs 100 per month from the residents for providing basic civic services in the area. I have directed concerned officials to lodge an FIR against him. I have also directed the GM Jal Sansthan to lodge an FIR against the colonizer for installing the tubewells without his permission and supplying the non- chlorinated water in the colony.
On the LMC front, the FIR would be lodged after the approval of municipal chief.”
The Khurram Nagar Jan Kalyan Samiti reportedly did not allow the Jal Sansthan to run its waterline in the area. It sold Khurram Nagar land to the families and supplied water on its own.
A joint team of the Jal Sansthan and the LMC officials found a leakage in the private pipeline in front of house number 55. The team was also unhappy to see a handpump installed on a nullah. Jal Sansthan collected sample of water and found it not fit for drinking.
Meanwhile, municipal commissioner Ram Bidh Maurya, along with, general manager Jal Sansthan RK Tripathi , Nagar Swasthya Adhikari BBS Rathore and zonal health officer AK Pandey visited the affected areas.
The LMC pressed 50 safai workers into service, two trippers, four three-wheelers and one loader was pressed in to lift the garbage from the area.
Zonal health officer AK Pandey said he was not aware that he was the ZHO of this area. This thing angered the municipal commissioner, who issued a strict warning to Pandey against the laxity in duty. Sanitary inspector Shyam Sunder Tewari was given adverse entry by the municipal chief after the visit of the area.
