Social workers associated with different organisations on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to BMC Mayor K Madhavi here urging her to pay attention to the problems being faced by denizens daily.
Eight demands which figured in the memorandum include display of ‘Road closed and work in progress’ board at places where drain and roads works underway, issue of open defecation prohibitory orders on roadsides, immediate action against those who construct humps on roads forcibly, protection to common people against street dogs and monkeys, erection of cow sheds for stray bullocks and action against those who let their cows to move freely on roads, erection of boards to display lane names in all 40 wards, plantation of fruit and flower trees on roadsides and distribution of ration cards to beneficiaries at the earliest.
“Stray bullocks cause accidents on roads many times. Similarly, newly--constructed 10 to 15 lanes need to be indicated properly on signboards as visitors and strangers are facing difficulties to locate houses and office they want to visit. Besides, stray dogs are posing problems for the city denizens. These problems need to be resolved soon,” the social workers told the Mayor.
The social activists and leaders who signed the memorandum include India Media Centre’s Padmacharan Das, Vikash founder members Nilakantha Sahu and Pitambar Palo, Sansar’s Ramesh Sahu, Brahmapur Development Council’s K Dharmaraju Reddy, Bijaya Padhi, Shyama Prasanna Mohapatra, Bijay Nayak, Bharat Padhi, Santosh Patra, lalit Padhi, Subash Patra and Rabindra Palo and Bijay Choudhury, Dr Chittaranjan Panda and Subash Patra.