Nagpur: Upset with the failure of civil institutions and the government to repair holes on all roads, NGO Janmanch has reminded them of the strict order passed by the Nagpur bench from the Bombay High Court on October 16, 2019, and appealed to implement it.
The majority of city roads, except concrete, have developed a crater-sized hole due to continuous rain, mainly because of inferior quality materials used by contractors, Jankan activists accused.
Civic and government agencies like the Department of Public Works (PWD), Mahametro, and NHAI, among others, have failed to improve the streets in their jurisdiction, they said.
Take aware of the toi report about death because of the hole in September 2019, the division bench then consisting of judge Zaka Haq (now retirement) and Pushpa Ganediwala has treats the problem as a suo motu pill and issued a notification to the commissioner of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) Abhijit Bangar and later Police Commissioner (CP) Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay.
In a series of reports, TOI also exposes how some new cement roads have developed cracks in just a year.
This includes a ring road, stretching in the East High Court of the square square, Great Nag Road and others.
While designing a citizen mechanism to file a complaint hole in their area through social media, the bench has directed both officers to improve them within 10 days, which failed to investigate the problem.
Janmanch’s appeal came after being clarified in the NMC public body meeting that NMC was not in a position to fix all holes before the end of December.
Further informed that only 20% of funds allocated for work were spent by the Civic Agency until September, which caused the multiplication of the hole roads.
When appointing Raheel Mirza as Amicus Curiae to compile this case, Justice Haq has been seeking detailed information from NMC and police chief about actions taken against subordinates for negligence.
They also tried to know the number of violations submitted to citizenship and police officials in cases related to accidents due to holes and actions taken against them.
Then, the intervention was submitted by lawyer Anil Kumar highlighted how several complaints committed by civilian authorities through social media did not get attention.
After HC criticism, the police came out with a mechanism for citizens to submit complaints by sending e-mails to dcptrafficnagpur@gmail.com, or tweet to @trafficNGP and through whatsapp at 9011387100.
Similarly, NMC also activates social mechanisms on social media platforms such as Email on ngppotholescomplaints@gmail.com, Twitter link – https://twitter.com/ngpnmc and facebook link – http://m.facebook.com/nmcngp.
The Civic’s body also told HC on October 16, 2019, that it was in the process of making cellular applications and hosting on the Android platform, which would facilitate registration of complaints immediately.
Janmanch claimed the application was never launched and NMC has also stopped receiving complaints.
Where to submit a Pothole complaint * Send an email to dcptrafficnagpur@gmail.com * Tweet to @trafficNGP – https://twitter.com/ngpnmc * WhatsApp on 9011387100 * on facebook – http://m.facebook.com/nmcngp * As informed by NMC to HC in 2019)