news details |
|
|
| Despite orders SMC ward officer fails to demolish shop blocking entrance of building in Lal Chowk | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times REPORT
SRINAGAR, Feb 11: Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) is entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring that the civic laws are implemented in letter and spirit in Srinagar city and that nobody takes law in hands but the same is not true with every area of the city.
Enforcement Officer (East) of SMC wrote a letter to ward officer of ward number 2 asking the officer to carry out demolition of a provisional shop that had come at the entrance of a building in the Lal Chowk area. The correspondence was shot on February 7, 2022 and till date no action has been taken.
“In connection with the above cited subject and reference, this office has received communication vide above referred number where under it has been stated that you have visited the site and observed that the entrance of the building has been occupied by Shabir Ahmad Bhat by way of fixed iron shutter and carried out his business as provisional store and no other entrance is to enter the structure,” wrote Enforcement Officer (East) under correspondence number SMC/EO/E/1823-25 dated 7-2-2022.
The correspondence further reads, “In this connection you are hereby directed to take appropriate necessary action immediately and submit action taken report to the Chief Enforcement Officer under intimation to the undersigned, however men and machinery will be provided as and when required on your telephonic call at any time.”
The correspondence was shot on the basis of an application moved by Bilal Ahmad Reshi, Hilal Ahmad Reshi and Atiqa through their father Jan Mohammad Reshi resident of Natipora Azad Basti, Srinagar at present Sunjwan, Jammu for illegal construction on municipal land.
Before the correspondence of Enforcement Officer (East) the concerned ward officer wrote a letter to the Chief Enforcement Officer, SMC mentioning about the allegations levelled by the complainants. The ward officer presented a report to the Chief Enforcement Officer and said that the allegations are true in nature.
“Apropos with the subject cited above, it is submitted that the undersigned along with the field staff visited the site and observed that the entrance of the building has been occupied by the non-applicants namely Shabir Ahmad Bhat by way of fixed iron shutter wherein carried out his business as provisional store (photographic evidence enclosed). It is further mentioned that there is no other entrance to enter the said structure,” wrote the ward officer. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
