LUDHIANA: Recommending legal action against the encroachers,
MC commissioner Pardeep Sabharwal
has written a letter to police commissioner
Rakesh Aggarwal
. The MC commissioner has asked the police chief to take legal action against these shopkeepers for encroaching upon some portion of the roads, which is creating traffic chaos in these areas.
The action has been recommended against 29 shopkeepers in
Ghoda Colony and Bihari Colony
near Cheema chowk, Chimney road near Samrala Chowk, GT road, Transport Nagar and Industrial Area-A.
RTI activist Rohit Sabharwal claimed that he had made a complaint against these encroachers over phone to the MC commissioner. He had claimed that shopkeepers had kept material on a portion of the roads, disturbing traffic flow on these roads.
The MC commissioner has given reference of the
Punjab and Haryana high court order of 2012, which says that the police and MC should take action against the encroachers immediately. There is also a provision of penalty as well as FIR against the repeated offenders. These shopkeepers fall in zone B area and since they have kept material outside the shops, people are facing traffic problems.
The officials of tehbazaari branch have taken action against these shopkeepers several times and also imposed penalty on them, but shopkeepers didn’t mend their ways. So, now they are left with no other option but to recommend legal action against them.
The MC and police teams are already carrying out an anti-encroachment drive in the city, especially in certain markets, and people have appreciated the move. But still there are certain places where encroachers are still there.
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