Speaker, Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly Kavinder Gupta reviewed the functioning of Jammu Municipal Corporation in a meeting held here today.The Speaker assessed the progress of various ongoing development works being executed by JMC in Gandhi Nagar constituency and directed the officials to closely monitor all ongoing works for their completion in stipulated time frame accruing the benefits to the public at the earliest.He directed the officers of JMC to strictly adhering to the quality norms and to ensure proper utilization of resources for optimum outcome.Speaker also directed the concerned officials to submit a ward wise progress report to his office and asked them to prepare area specific project proposals for ensuring development of potential areas.The meeting was informed about the beautification works including installation of streetlights and construction of entrance gate to be undertaken for developing Apsara Road Market as a Heritage Bazaar.Kavinder also took detailed review of progress work of park at Jeevan Nagar. Pertinently, the park is being constructed with an estimated cost of 5 crore.
The Speaker exhorted upon the officials to put in strenuous efforts to reach out to the people to ensure prompt service delivery and to take all the requisite measures for redressal of their grievances. Speaker directed the Jammu Municipal Corporation to repair defunct street lights and clear the choked drains to avoid any inconvenience to the public.Various issues including upgradation of transformer, installation of more dust bins, water supply to toilet complex, parking issue were also discussed in the meeting.XENs,AEEs,JEEs besides various functionaries of JMC attended the meeting.