Congress Corporators of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Thursday staged a dharna in front of the office of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the civic body highlighting the dismal performance of the CMC Council and civic problems of the city.
Holding placards, the Congress Corporators raised slogans against the ruling BJD and later submitted an 18-point memorandum to CEO Gyana Das. They brought to the CEO’s notice the fact
that the monthly meetings of the CMC Council have not been held even once in the past six months.
“The last council meeting was held in December 2015 and no business was transacted on that day as the council witnessed pandemonium over the then Mayor Anita Behera’s involvement in ration card row,” the memorandum
said, adding that the administrative functioning of the council has been severely affected due to this.
The memorandum also highlighted the problems faced by the citizens including that of the pathetic conditions of the city roads due to unplanned work undertaken by the JICA to give a new lease of life to city’s old sewerage and drainage problems. Stating that the roads have now turned into deathtraps, it claimed that at least three people have already lost their lives due to poor road conditions.
The Congress leaders also highlighted the ration card row, de-siltation of drains, poor sanitation, hoarding tax fraud, poor distribution of old age
and other aids, mosquito menace, water logging and dark city roads.
When asked about the memorandum, the CEO said he has just received the
memorandum and would make all-out efforts to solve the problems.