The Times of India            12.09.2013

Kanpur municipal corporation, traffic cop demolish 65 encroachments in Kanpur

KANPUR: Kanpur municipal corporation and traffic police, in a joint venture, demolished as many as 65 encroachments between Jarib Chauki Crossing and P Road on Wednesday.

The team issued warning to five tyre shops for encroachment on the road. The shop owners had dug 6 feet deep pit for wheel alignment and had covered them by a cover. According to Rajeev Shukla zonal officer zone -3, the enforcement squad sized the covers and warned them to fill the pits or the corporation would recover the damages from them.

The squad, thereafter, demolished a hotel running on footpath. The traffic cops also issued challan memo to vehicle owners who had perked their vehicles on main crossing in between Jarib Chauki and P Road. The officials including R K Nayak, circle officer traffic, Vinay Maurya tax superintendent and Arun Dwivedi warned the shop keepers of P Road who had displayed their goods on the road.

Shukla informed that a bank had raised a gate on footpath which was seized by the team. The squad, thereafter, removed cart, tattar and tarpuline sheds occupying space on the road.

Municipal commissioner D K Singh, along with additional municipal commissioner Umakant Tripathi and zonal health officer S P Singh supervised Jarib Chauki Crossing and Ghantaghar Road , ward number 97 Harbans Mohal and inspected sanitation drive there.

The commissioner observed garbage in front of a house in Sutar Khana and directed the area sanitation supervisor to lift the garbage and take legal action against the house owner.

During the visit at Harbans Mohal he observed that four permanent sweepers and one contractual sweeper were absent from the area. Garbage was lying on the road near Malviya Park and drains were also not cleaned. On post office road the vendors had occupied the area above the drains and even some part of the road. The commissioner ordered the zonal sanitary inspectors to remove the encroachment and the issue challan memo to the erring shopkeepers .The municipal commissioner also directed to endorse adverse entry in service book of Sunil Gupta sanitary inspector for dereliction of duty and transferred safai nayak Anil, Durga Charan and Ram Swarup.