Bhopal

Residents of depilated houses of Shahjehanabad relocated

Staff Reporter

Residents of depilated houses of Shahjehanabad located at Vinoba Bhave Colony would be relocated in the houses constructed in Vajpayee Nagar at Eidgah Hills by Tuesday.

A decision in this regard was taken here unanimously in a meeting between Mayor Alok Sharma, Municipal Corporation Commissioner Tejaswi S Nayak and the representatives of the residents of Vinoba Bhave Colony on Monday. The meet also decided that the Municipal Corporation would soon reconstruct the depilated buildings and would handover them to residents.

However, the Municipal Corporation would not only provide all possible help to residents of the Colony during shifting but would also construct the houses under self finance scheme and would also help in developing the area.

Mayor Sharma also took the occasion to provide financial aid of rupees one lakh to the family members of Bhagyawati who was killed in building collapse on Sunday besides an aid of rupees fifty thousand was given to Soniya Bai on behalf of Municipal Corporation.

The meeting was attended by Municipal additional commissioner Chandramouli Shukla, Member of Mayor in Council Mahesh Makwana, local Corporator Mewalal, President of Zone number 5 Rafiq Qureshi, city engineer AK Nanda, city engineer AR Pawar besides representatives of the residents of the depilated buildings and officials of the Municipal Corporation.

The meeting that was called by Mayor Sharma was held in the auditorium of Acharya Narendradev library.

Sharma while talking to the representatives of the colony said that the accident happened yesterday was unfortunate and advised them to immediately vacate the depilated buildings and shift to the place where the Corporation has made temporary arrangements of their stay at Eidgah Hills so that Municipal Corporation could reconstruct the Vinoba Colony. He assured the residents that the corporation would soon reconstruct their houses and they would be shifted back.