Bhopal

BMC holds public hearing

Staff Reporter

The weekly public hearing was held at Bhopal Municipal Corporation headquarters Sadar Manzil, here on Tuesday. In the ongoing process of weekly public hearings, 21 applications were submitted before BMC Commissioner Tejaswi S Naik.

Naik came across various problems and complaints of the applicants and instructed the officials concerned to resolve them with immediate effect. During the hearing, officials of different departments were present. With the implementation of the instructions given by Mayor Krishna Gaur, weekly public hearing is organised every Tuesday to hear the various problems of the citizens.

People from different areas of the city reached the headquarters and presented their complaints concerning issues like encroachments, cleanliness and hygiene, illegal constructions, pension schemes, water supply, revenue, electricity and other public facilities. BMC Commissioner asked the officials to take immediate action and resolve the problems of the applicants as soon as possible. During the public hearing, applicants from different areas of the city appeared with their complaints and Naik, after hearing all the complaints, gave necessary instructions to the officials concerned.

Further, wife of an ex employee in sanitary department of BMC came with her plea that after her husband’s death she hasn’t received the pension yet. Naik asked the officials concerned to immediately look into the matter and also asked the woman to submit the required documents as soon as possible. Notably, the applicants individually appeared before BMC Commissioner to submit their complaints. BMC Additional Commissioners Chandramoli Shukla, GP Mali, Public Relation Officer Virendra Tiwari and others were also present in this meeting.