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| PIL filed by 112 Devotees of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi against failure of Katra Municipal Committee for providing facilities | | |
JAMMU, March 28
A Writ petition in the shape of Public Interest Litigation filed by 112 devotees of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji against failure of Municipal Committee Katra to provide services of Pony/Palki/ Pithus/Porters to the pilgrims. It only tries to collect the taxes from the yatries and provided no facilities to them.
A Writ petition in the shape of Public Interest Litigation filed by 112 devotees of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji against failure of Municipal Committee Katra to provide services of Pony/Palki/ Pithus/Porters to the pilgrims. It only tries to collect the taxes from the yatries and provided no facilities to them.
This Public Interest Litigation filed today through Advocate Rajiv Sharma in which it has been submitted that the petitioners are devotees of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji and they visit the shrine almost every month. They are very much interest in the proper management of the affairs of the Shrine because more than 60 laces of yatries visits the holy shrine every years. There is continuous flow of the yatries that goes on day and night. The petitioners are interest parties and are entitled to institute the petition as Public Interest Litigation. In the petition it has been submitted that one petition titled as Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board Katra Vs state of J&K and Ors is pending in the state High Court.
In the petition it has been alleged that the Municipal Committee Katra is not performing its duties properly. The Municipal Committee charging taxes exorbitantly from the pilgrims, the yatries have to pay taxes to it as they have no alternative. On the one hand the municipal committee, the pithuwallas, ponywalas and palkiwalas are charging excessively and on the other hand there is no body to listen to the grievances of the petitioners and other yatries. Numbers of complaints were made to the authorities, but no action has been taken. It appears that Municipal Committee is interesting in collecting taxes only but it has not control over pithuwallas etc and there is no authority to regulate and control the charging of remunerations from yatries. The Municipal Committee is meant to collect taxes and to appropriate the same for some other purpose only. Since there is no control on the pituwallas etc so they have created a mess and the yatries are being looted by charging exorbitantly. It is further alleged in the petition that because of the inaction on the part of municipal committee Katra. In other words the municipal committee is using all illegal means to exploit the yatries and charging excessive taxes from the yatries and no facilities whatsoever are being provided to the yatries.
In the parayer the petitioners prayed before the court seeking direction to the respondents to provide proper facilities to yatries visting Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji, pitus, ponies, palkiwallas, porter etc and to regulate their services and restrain them to go on illegal strikes and also seeking quashment of letter dated January 6, 2006 authorizing the municipal committee to charge tax/commissions from yatries. JNF
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