System to stop extortion by Enforcement officers, audit of dev works by third-party among various issues discussed

Jammu Mayor meets CS

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: The City Mayor of Jammu, Rajinder Sharma on Thursday met Chief Secretary Dr. Arun Mehta and had detailed discussions on various issues of public importance.
The Mayor said synchronisation of thoughts between bureaucrats, elected representatives and constitutional heads is resulting in all round development and achieving the objective of public welfare.
He discussed the concept of Construction Surveillance System for the Jammu City under which construction works can be monitored from the concerned office to stop the ‘ongoing extortion’ by Enforcement Officers.
Another issue discussed was preventing Nallahs from falling into river Tawi so that the upcoming artificial lake in Tawi may remain clean and hygienic.
How to compound the buildings made without Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) permission along with introducing the Building Bylaws to give relief to the people and streamlining of the existing bylaws was also discussed so that anyone can read these laws and get own site plan approved.
The Mayor also took the concept of e-offices to avoid people falling victim to the ‘notorious clerical biasedness’ and to have the work done on first come first serve basis.
The burning issue of polythene ban and narcotic addiction also came under discussion and Mayor Sharma stated that polythene use has created a lot of problems for modern urbanisation and resulted in shrinking and pollution of water bodies.
He proposed that carry bags made of cellulose and starch should be put to public use as these can get easily decomposed in soil in a short time.
After discussions, Sharma chalked out a plan on how to make Jammu a drug addiction free region and suggested that de-addiction should be done for those who have fallen prey to the menace of drug addiction while the drug smugglers and traders should be put behind the bars and stringent Public Safety Act should be slapped on the big gangsters running this inhuman trade.
The helmsman of Urban Local Body demanded approval for Rs. 84 crore under different heads so that the Nallahs in the City can be improved, constructed and reconstructed using this amount which is already lying with JMC head.
Rajinder Sharma also demanded drawing and disbursement powers to Executive Engineers of JMC as JMC Commissioner being over occupied and has no time for such tasks.
Speeding up of work on Tawi Lake ensuring quality work was also discussed and a third party audit was demanded to avoid any misappropriation of funds in developmental work and to ensure transparency.
Sharma said that the allotment of parking slots along road sides shall be preferably audited and the audit report containing irregularity, if any, shall be reported to the Chief Secretary for action so that no employee in the local body may get involved in corruption.
He proposed that level of the park at Gole Market in Gandhi Nagar shall be brought down to the road level and Tricolour shall be hoisted in the middle of it after removing the rotary.
Decongesting of old Jammu city was also discussed by the Mayor with the CS and he proposed that a parking place shall be constructed at Bhagwati Nagar under Tawi bridge.