Indian Express 05.08.2010
AMC gets a bitter PIL from residents for civic mess
Express News Service Tags : high court, Corporation Posted: Fri Aug 06 2010, 02:06 hrs
Ahmedabad: Aggrieved by the inaction of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Urban Development Department in not providing clean drinking water and sewerage water disposal facility, residents of Vejalpur, Gyaspur, Makarba, Juhapura, Vasna and Ranip have filed a Pubilc Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Gujarat High Court.A High Court Division Bench has now issued notices to AMC and the state government and kept a hearing on the PIL for September 6.
The petitioners have contended that the state government merged the six areas with AMC through a notification in July 2006. But while they have been paying property tax to AMC, the authorities have failed to provide them with pure drinking water and proper means for sewage disposal. This has caused them a lot of hardships, they said.
The petitioners said their attempts to bring to the notice of authorities their plight have not been heard and they had to approach the HC for an efficacious remedy of the problem.
