Mayor Alok Sharma visited the busy markets of the old city on Saturday to ensure better traffic arrangements for citizens besides basic amenities in systematic way in the market areas.
Sharma visited Chowk Bazar, lakherapura, Ibrahimpura, loha Bazar, Jumerati and Azad Market and held discussions with the traders and sought their cooperation in removing encroachments from roads and drains and making the markets methodical.
Sharma said to the traders, “Municipal Corporation would construct systematic parking at Jehangiriya School and Birjisiya School and the traders would be provided photo identity cards for parking their vehicles.”
Sharma furthers aid that neither any discrimination is been done in the ongoing anti encroachment drive of the Corporation neither any one is being provided patronage in it while proper arrangements are being made by constructing hawkers crooner to provide better employment opportunities.
The mayor also hold discussions with the Coporators, Zone presidents and administrative and police officials besides talking to the citizens residing in market areas. “City government is committed for making city clean and developed. Now our city is also selected to be developed as Smart City and we are also committed for making the markets of our city as Smart Markets,” Sharma said.
He said that the encroachments not only causes inconvenience to the people but also adversely affects the business and called on the traders to form teams to stop two wheelers parking in the markets.
He also called on the traders to put up dustbins in their shops and stop the people to throw waste on roads and drains. The anti encroachment drive has been launched by rising above party based politics and all the legislators of the state capital are cooperating in the drive. We are hopeful that the traders organizations of the old city would also extend the cooperation to the Corporation like the New Market traders did, he added.