Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 11: Member Legislative Council (MLC), Ch. Vikram Randhawa, today conducted an extensive tour of Gandhi Nagar Constituency and directed authorities to retrieve encroached land immediately as encroachments have made Jammu flood prone.
Randhawa, who today on the request of the inhabitants of Ranibagh, Tarkhana Mohalla, Vidhata Nagar, Shiv Shakti Mohalla in Gandhi Nagar Assembly segment conducted an extensive tour to these areas and listened to the problems being faced by the people appealed them to remove encroachments voluntarily.
During his visit to Vidhata Nagar the locals said that the area has become a flood prone following encroachment by a land grabber who has raised a multi-storey structure on the encroached land of the nallah. On inspecting the area Randhawa immediately directed DDC Jammu to get this land retrieved from the encroacher as with the onset of the Monsoon a threat of flood is looming large in the locality.
He said that the encroacher who happens to be a son of a well known Kashmir based politician has obstructed the water flow of the nallah by raising building over the land and has reduced the width of the nallah from five to six feet which was once in hundred meters.
While talking to the people at other places during his visit Randhawa said that it is a matter of shame for those who ruled the State for 70 years after independence as the areas are still underdeveloped. He assured the people that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and BJP is committed to carryout all round development of Jammu region particularly of underdeveloped hamlets.
He said that ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’ would be made reality in the days to come and Gandhi Nagar will witness unprecedented development as many mega projects for the area are in pipeline.
He also asked the people to consider him as their family member and feel free to contact him anytime regarding any problem.
Others present on the occasion include Ch. Harbans Lal, P.S Raina, Sukhchain Choudhary, Amit Gupta, Tarun Sharma, Maan Singh, Sachin Sharma, Gourav Sharma, Som Raj etc.
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