Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court seeking an affidavit from the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) and Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) on the action taken on the stray cattle and poor civic condition in Pink City directed the JMC to stop the digging work by private telecom companies till the roads earlier dug up by them are filled up.
The single bench of Justice MN Bhandari gave the direction during the hearing of a suo motu petition by the court after the death of an Argentinian citizen gored to death in the city recently.
JMC commissioner Ravi Jain who was present in the court informed the court that he was personllay monitoring the action taken on the front of stray cattle menance informed that the JMC had caught so far 1700 stray cattle. The court then asked what the contractor is doing.
"The data of the last two years shows the municipal body caught about 17,000 stray animals in a year. Either the figure is fudged or the penalty of Rs 5000 is too high so that the cattle owners did not turn up to claim the animals," the court observed.
The court directed that that the JDA, JMC, Zonal commissioner's file separate affidavit on the action taken on timely garbage disposal, stray cattle menace and repairing the dug up roads by the first week of January.
The court had made the damning remark on the poor state of civic system in the city while taking suo motu cognizance of the issue. It observed that "While the government speaks of smart cities on the one hand, the city is being held to ransom by stray cattle, on the other."
The single bench of Justice MN Bhandari gave the direction during the hearing of a suo motu petition by the court after the death of an Argentinian citizen gored to death in the city recently.
JMC commissioner Ravi Jain who was present in the court informed the court that he was personllay monitoring the action taken on the front of stray cattle menance informed that the JMC had caught so far 1700 stray cattle. The court then asked what the contractor is doing.
"The data of the last two years shows the municipal body caught about 17,000 stray animals in a year. Either the figure is fudged or the penalty of Rs 5000 is too high so that the cattle owners did not turn up to claim the animals," the court observed.
The court directed that that the JDA, JMC, Zonal commissioner's file separate affidavit on the action taken on timely garbage disposal, stray cattle menace and repairing the dug up roads by the first week of January.
The court had made the damning remark on the poor state of civic system in the city while taking suo motu cognizance of the issue. It observed that "While the government speaks of smart cities on the one hand, the city is being held to ransom by stray cattle, on the other."
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