After the Jharkhand High Court (HC) fiat to immediately dispose all the pending files at the Ranchi Municipal Corporation, Mayor Asha lakra has started reviewing the imminent projects that was wedged in the midst of the tussle between the civic body officials and the Mayor.
As many as 65 projects concerning huge amount related to public welfare covering even the basic civic issues like sewerage drainage, cleanliness are pending since September 2016. The Mayor has claimed that she has prepared the lists and will sort out schemes covering roads, drainage work progress primarily before taking up any other project.
“At the moment, I am studying all the files before getting it cleared from the Board members during the meeting scheduled on April 25. My priority is taking up the projects ward wise that have been pending since long. Recently, work order related to HYDT has been approved. Now few projects separately of different wards are being reviewed. Agendas for the upcoming Board meeting are also ready,” said lakra.
After verifying the status of previous tenders, lakra said, “Two three project works was cleared recently. Within a day or two, few more files will be cleared related to water supply and electricity.” Speaking on the licenses that will be issued to meat shop and slaughter house owners, lakra said that all the by-laws related to the functioning of meat shop and slaughter house within municipal area have been prepared and only after getting approval in the board meeting, all the shop owners will get the provisional licenses after fulfilling the norms. On Friday, meat shop owners and association heads also interacted with the Mayor for getting consent over their long pending demands to reopen the meat shops that are shut down across the city since March 2017.
Similarly, while conducting a review meeting with the health section officers along with the zonal supervisors, enforcement officers and with the Essel Infra workers, the company who has taken up the charge for managing the solid waste management in the Capital city, lakra said, “The meeting was kept to know the work progress especially the sanitation work of different wards including the health department projects that included fogging task that is taken up ward wise recently.”
The dispute between the RMC Mayor and Municipal Commissioner, Prashant Kumar that was brought to the notice of a division bench of Chief Justice PK Mohanty and Justice Ananda Sen by the petitioner’s advocate during the hearing of a PIl filed on the issue of the outbreak of mosquitoes in Ranchi had given the civic body a week’s time to resolve all the pending cases.