Cabinet minister and Dharampur MlA Dinesh Aggarwal has directed officials of the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun to take steps for improving the level of civic sanitation in town. Inspecting water logging prone areas at Turner Road and Clement Town Cantt along with various departmental officials, the minister told the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari (MNA) Harak Singh Rawat that due to improper waste disposal, the garbage piled in the open ends up in sewers and blocks drainage of rainwater which in turn leads to waterlogging.
He directed the MCD officials to undertake cleaning on priority in areas prone to water logging to ensure that the rain water is drained as desired. Aggarwal directed officials of the Pejyal Nigam and the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority to ensure completion of the undergoing road work at Turner Road on priority. He directed the corporation officials to leave a lane open for locals, fill it with river bed material and level it properly to facilitate movement.
The MDDA and Peyjal Nigam should work in coordination to construct roadside drains to prevent inconvenience to the locals. He told the power department officials to work swiftly on the hanging power lines and facilitate setting up of transformers and electricity poles at the sites marked. MDDA secretary Banshidhar Tiwari and officials of PWD, Pejyal Nigam and other departments were also among those present.