A weekly public hearing was held at the Bhopal Municipal Corporation headquarters, Sadar Manzil, here on Tuesday. In the ongoing process of weekly public hearings, 25 applications were submitted before BMC Additional Commissioner GP Mali.
Mali 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 various problems faced by 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 Additional Commissioner asked the officials to take immediate action and resolve the problems of the applicants as soon as possible.
BMC Deputy Commissioners Pradeep Verma and Sriram Tiwari, Health Official SP Shrivastava along with other officials were present at the hearing. Meanwhile, the anti-encroachment squad of Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) continues to remove encroachments in the city.
On Tuesday the squad removed encroachments from Chowk Market, Jumerati, Azaad Market, Ghoda Nakkas, Old Vegetable Market, Hamidia Road, Sindhi Colony and nearby areas. The squad warned the shopkeepers not to encroach at public places and not to create obstacles to smooth movement of the traffic.
Under action against encroachments, the BMC squad removed five stand boards, two cycles, five boxes of mangoes, one wooden almirah and more from the shops and cautioned the shopkeepers to keep the stuff within their boundary or else stern action would be taken against them.
The squad removed encroachments and illegal constructions from markets, roads and other public places. Another team of anti-encroachment squad also removed encroachments from Subhash Nagar, Anand Nagar, District Court Road, Government Press, Prabhat Chouraha, Raisen Road, ITI Road and nearby areas.