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| When cat is away mice play | | | With Jammu Municipal Corporation as well as Jammu Development
Authority having lowered their guards and in a state of inaction
again, the habitual encroachers are again at their old game of
encroaching over the municipal or other government lands. With the
authorities in JMC coming to action two months ago some discipline was
imposed on the shopkeepers in various marketplaces, who had extended
their shops by covering footpaths and road portion in front of their
respective shops, causing a good deal of inconvenience to the
pedestrians. The shopkeepers were forced to remain within their
authorized limit by not displaying their merchandise on the footpaths
or on the road in front of their shops. For few days regular checks
were made by the municipal staff, who even confiscated the goods kept
by the shopkeepers on the footpath etc. Some habitual violators of the
municipal laws and order sought to be identified by the corporation
were challaned and prosecuted. For a month or so a sort of discipline
and order was affected, with pedestrians heaving a sigh of relief. But
the concerned authorities again becoming derelict and neglecting their
responsibility, the shopkeepers have the temptation to again adopt the
routine course of extending their shops, displaying their merchandise
on the pavements and footpaths. Some more unscrupulous among them have
even again started using the road as makeshift workshop. In Rajinder
Bazar, for instance, the habitual users of footpath and road use the
same in their front as makeshift workshop to make steel beds or chairs
and apply nylon strips on the frames. Not only this, the road in front
of their shops is blocked with parking of their own vehicles in
haphazard manner. Purposely and methodically a good deal of area in
front of their shops is covered. In Kanak Mandi too the shopkeepers
have again started opening and packing bundles of their goods in the
footpath, leaving no room for the pedestrians to pass through. Similar
has been the case on the road from Super Bazaar to Purani Mandi, where
the vendors have again occupied the pavements to sell their
merchandise. This is call for the concerned authorities to come to
action again and maintain ceaseless vigilance against the habitual
violators of law. The matter does not end here. While the authorities
have removed encroachment on government lands and even demolished the
super structures raised unauthorisedly in case of less influential
people, some highly resourceful people still continue to occupy lands
encroached by them and buildings raised over these unauthorisedly
grabbed pieces of lands, whether these lands belong to JDA or Nazool.
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