STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: If there is a contest between the most neglected areas of the City of Temples, beyond any doubt the Ward-74 will find itself placed at the top slot in the list of winners because hardly there is any civic edifice available to the people despite the area falling under Jammu Municipal Corporation which recently won the second prize for ‘Best Municipal Corporation in the Plastic Waste Management category’ at Plastic Recycling Conference Asia 2.0, which was held in Delhi by APIC. It seems that JMC has turned into a big corporate house and is not at all interested in doing its basic jobs of providing civic edifice and maintaining sanitation.
Reportedly, the people living in the vicinity are feeling dejected as there are places in the ward which were deprived of civic facilities for the last many decades as there are no lanes and drains in many stretches and parks are also for namesake. The localities falling in the neglected Ward include Sainik Colony Extension Sector D; Indira Enclave; Deleny Mohalla Chowadi; Sunjwan Purana Mohalla, Kalibir Mandir and other adjoining areas.
Aaya Singh, resident of Sector D Indira Enclave Sainik Colony expressed dismay against the Government for not developing area despite falling under the JMC. It seems that the authorities are in deep slumber, having no concern about the problems being face by the people of Jammu city. Ramesh Kumar, hailing from Sunjwan, flayed authorities for not doing enough for people living in the vicinity as the place lacks civic edifice and whatever is available to the people have been constructed decades ago and is presently in dismal shape. It’s like we are living in rural areas despite the area falling under Jammu Municipal Corporation. He said that Mayor Jammu Chander Gupta visited Kalibir Mandir regularly in Ward-74 but never cared to uplift civic infrastructure as people are confronting lots of hardships.
Girdhari Lal Chanda, resident of Sainik Colony said that officials sitting at the helm of affairs should fulfill their responsibility as people are deprived of the basic amenities and nothing is being done to bail out the public from this difficulty as the civic infrastructure is deteriorating with each passing day.
Councilor Sobat Ali, Ward-74 told STATE TIMES that there is none to listen to grievances of people. Despite taking up the matter with the Mayor, JMC Commissioner and even the officials of R&B Department nothing has been done. Still the lanes and roads of aforesaid ward are in dilapidated condition.
The Councilor slammed authorities for talking about Smart City but on ground things are abysmal as Ward-74 is the best example of government’s indifference towards development of Jammu. “No roads, no water, no lanes, no drains, no door to door garbage collection, etc are the characteristics of Ward-74 which are mocking at Government’s tall claims”, he said and appealed to the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to take serious note of people’s issues and intervene in the matter to help the people by raising the required edifice.
