Speaker, J&K Legislative Assembly Kavinder Gupta today directed the J&K Housing Board to transfer the internal roads of Channi Himmat housing colony to PWD (R&B) to facilitate maintenance of roads on regular basis.Kavinder said this while chairing a high level meeting of officers of various allied departments today at Civil Secretariat.Commissioner Secretary Housing & Urban Development Hirdesh Kumar assured the Speaker that all necessary measures would be initiated in this regard at the earliest.Taking concerns about open defecation by the migrant labourers living amid established housing colonies, the Speaker directed the JMC and Hosing Board to work together to weed out this menace from the society. In this regard, JMC was directed to construct community toilets for this populace besides housing board was asked to ensure that every private owner who rent-out their land to migrant population should provide them basic amenities like water, legal electric connections and proper toilets facilities.Kavinder asked JMC and Hosing Board to strictly enforce these directions to achieve the target of ODF (open defecation free) for the state.
Speaker, having received multiple complaints from the public regarding dairy farms operational in the housing colonies, directed the concerned department to shift them to the outskirts as it creates sanitation concerns.Conveying seriousness of the government to contain encroachment on the vulnerable areas, the Speaker asked JMC to evict encroachers from the lands adjoining nallahs especially in Channi Himmat, Gangyal and other areas and take plantation drives on these stretches under AMRUT. He said that these measures will generate green cover in the state along with dissuading encroachers.Further decisions were taken to transfer the parks over the area of 4 kanal to floriculture for maintenance in Channi Himmat area.The issues including sanitation, regular maintenance of lanes and drains by JMC, PWD (R&B), repair and new installation of street lights in Sainik Colony, Channi Himmat, Nai Basti , Shastri Nagar, Trikuta Nagar area, were also discussed during the meeting.Commissioner Secretary PWD(R&B)Rohit Kansal, Commissioner Secretary Housing & Urban Development Hirdesh Kumar, Director Finance (Planning) Kuldeep Singh Jamwal, Director Floriculture Sunil Misri, Commissioner JMC Manmohan Singh, Additional Secretary Floriculture and other officials from allied departments were present on the occasion.Later, Kavinder inaugurated paved tiled road constructed under the Constituency Development funds at Gadi Garh, Jammu. The lane was constructed at the cost of 5 lakh by the Rural Development department.