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| Watergam MC toilet complex to be demolished for road widening | | Rs 16 lakh incurred on its construction will go waste | |  S T Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Dec 12: A toilet complex was built at an estimated cost of Rupees 16 lacs in MC Watergam. However, due to road widening the complex would be dismantled in near future and the amount incurred on it will go down the drain.
"Road widening is a positive gesture of development, but when any government complex is constructed just few feet away from the highway that means it has to be dismantled by the concerned department in the due course of time", sources told early times.
Sources said that, the department concerned has already started road widening work at many places on Baramulla-Kupwara highway via Handwara and one fails to understand that why toilet complex was constructed few yards away from the national highway that too without building permission.
The local contractors and executing agency has not sought any building permission from MC Watergam, and with the result the toilet complex will be dismantled in short time bringing huge loss to the state exchequer, sources informed.
Local residents have raised a query over the construction of toilet complex over which Rupees 16 lakhs have been spent whereas the toilet complex would have come up at the cost of just 2-3 lakhs only.
Construction of complex is in violation of the building permission rules as Municipal Committee Watergam has not been approached for grant of permission, sources informed.
Sources while quoting a senior official in the MC Watergam as having said that, no building permission has been granted for construction of toilet complex on the Baramulla-Handwara highway near Watergam.
Sources believe that the contractor and the executing agency are hand in glove for such violation, and stern action should be initiated against the violators.
On Baramulla-Handwara highway, there are many illegal structures that have been constructed in the past by some influential businessmen and political workers, but the department concerned has not taken any action whatsoever against them so for, said sources.They said that the department should have passed the directions for no construction on highways so that no new structures will come up on both the sides of highway in future. |
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