Continuing the drive to provide better development & Civic amenities to the people of Jammu, Chander Mohan Gupta Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation today on 14.09.2020 conducted an extensive tour in the various wards of City alongwith concerned Councillors met with the locals, listened to their grievances & kick started various development works. At first Mayor kick started the construction / renovation of lane near Kanti Press Sarwal at the estimated cost of Rs. 7.80 lakh only in presence of Sh. Dinesh Gupta Councillor of ward no: 18 Sarwal, Jammu. Sh. Vijay Gupta Assistant Executive Engineer, Sh. B.K. Raina Junior Engineer of Engineering Division -II, Concerned Contractor, Sh. Munish Khajuria District President, Madam Sangeeta Gupta Distt Secretary, Sh. Karan Sharma Ward Pardhan, Madam Sangeeta Verma, Sh. Sanjay Bhatt Prominent BJP Leaders, Sh. Sat Pal, Sh. Kasturi Lal, Sh. Satish Gupta, Sh. R.C. Bhasin, Sh. Vijay Gupta and other Prominent inhabitants were also present there. Mayor said that this was the long pending demands of the locals as they were facing lot of problems while walking through this lane.
Later Mayor also visited ward no: 50 Channi Himmat area and kick started the renovation work of park situated at Sec No: 1 Opp Guru Da Bagh (Gurudawara) Channi Himmat with the estimated cost of Rs 25 lakhs. Madam Neena Gupta councilor of ward no: 50 Sh. Raj Kumar Councillor of ward no: 51 prominent inhabitants of the locality, staff of the Engineering Wing of JMC were also accompanied the Mayor during the tour. Mayor said that all the pending works in terms of construction of sheds / canopies, fixing of jullas for children, fixing of benches for sitting arrangements, commissioning of GYMs and its related equipments will be done in this park for the convenience of the locals as well as devotees / sangat who comes the Gurudawara for getting blessings of Guru Sahib.
Mayor said that although Channi Himmat is a posh locality but inspite of this, both the Councillors of Ward No: 50 & 51 are working together tirelessly in every field to make Channi Himmat on the pattern of Chandigarh & other planned cities. He also appeal to the members of Development committee of the park who comes for morning & evening walk to co-operate the JMC to make this park neat, clean & green by planting more & more seasonal sapling in & around the park for eco friendly atmosphere.
Besides this, Mayor alongwith Sh. Vikram Randhawa Ex MLC, Madam Tirath Kour Raina Councillor of ward no: 58 also kick started the renovation work of park situated at Akali Kour Singh Nagar Digiana at the estimate cost of Rs. 25 Lakh only. Sardar Paramjeet Singh Raina Ex Councillor of the ward no: 58, S. Parbjot Singh Junior Engineer and his field staff & other prominent Citizens of the ward were also present there during the inauguration function which was held in a simple way. Mayor directed the concerned Engineering Wing that all the necessary workers of Public importance such as laying of benches, play fields for children, sheds for sitting be developed in the said park on the demand of the councilor & locals with best quality material & upto the satisfaction of the public.
Mayor said that JMC is committed to complete all the major development works which were in pipe line since long as well as of restoration of traditional water bodies, commissioning of Open GYMs in the all Municipal Wards, installation of fountains in the 19 No’s of rotaries of City within the stipulated time frame. He further said that the parks are functioning as lungs for the people residing in this traffic prone city & it is our prime duty to take care of all the parks in their locality to make the environment more eco friendly.