The Green Zone being built by Medininagar Municipal Corporation in Daltonganj is being decried by the denizens of the town. While the residents are not against the greenery, they believe the flank of the road has been shrunk for shrubs and plants.

The upcoming Green Zone (GZ), being built at the cost of little over Rs 65 lakh on the Women’s College Road is attracting public criticism. Its design is being scrutinised by the public more feverishly than the christening of it as Green Zone. 

At some places the GZ is only one and half feet away from the main road and thus it is dangerous to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. 

M K Prasad, a resident of Daltonganj said "None of us is against the GZ. But its design is ill crafted. Road safety has been thrown to the wind."

"How can you have plants right across the road barely less than 2 feet away?" quipped Srivastav. 

Again for the GZ a five decade old tube well has been uprooted. Residents of Daltonganj react most vehemently when any water source here is destroyed or uprooted as the town reels under acute crisis of drinking water every summer. 

Commissioner of the Medininagar Municipal Corporation Md Jawed Hussain

Said, "There is a full length space for the pedestrians. As regards some of its structures lying too close to the road, it is 1.5 feet to 2 feet away and hence it doesn't cause any hazard."

He further said, “The tube well was malfunctioning. It will be replaced by a water kiosk that the corporation will set up here which will be providing water round the clock all free."

"GZ is no fanciful idea nor any borrowed or superimposed one. Citizens need such a space for lush green. So it is being raised here," he added.